locomotion

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Movement, or the ability to move from one place to another.

   Most animals use their legs for locomotion.

From French locomotion, from Latin locō (literally “from a place”) (ablative of locus (“place”)) + mōtiōnem (“motion, a moving”) (nominative mōtio), from Latin movēre (“move; change, exchange, go in or out, quit”), from Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- (“to move, drive”).

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