motto

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• General-American: /ˈmɑ.toʊ/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmɒ.təʊ/
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• Canada: /ˈmɒ.to/
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• rhymes with (General American) -ɑtoʊ
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• CMU ARPABET: M AA1 T OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Italian motto (“a word, a saying”), from Latin muttum (“a mutter, a grunt”), late 16th c. Doublet of mot.

134 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: leuse — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Albanian: devizë — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Arabic: شِعَار (šiʕār) — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Armenian: նշանաբան (nšanaban) — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Azerbaijani: şüar — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Basque: goiburu — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Belarusian: дэві́з (devíz) — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Bengali: নীতিবাক্য (nitibakko) — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Breton: sturienn — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Bulgarian: деви́з (devíz) — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Burmese: ဆောင်ပုဒ် (hcaungpud) — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Catalan: divisa — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Catalan: lema — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Chinese Mandarin: 座右銘 /座右铭 (zuòyòumíng) — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Czech: motto — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Danish: motto — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Dutch: motto — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Dutch: wapenspreuk — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Dutch: lijfspreuk — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Esperanto: moto — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Estonian: tunnuslause — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Finnish: motto — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Finnish: tunnuslause — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Finnish: vaalilause — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• French: devise — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• West-Frisian: biedwurd — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Georgian: დევიზი (devizi) — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• German: Motto — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• German: Wahlspruch — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Greek: ρητό (ritó) — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Hebrew: מוֹטוֹ (moto) — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Hindi: ध्येयवाक्य (dhyeyvākya) — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Hindi: सिद्धांत (siddhānt) — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Hindi: नीतिवाक्य (nītivākya) — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Hungarian: mottó — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Icelandic: kjörorð — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Ido: moto — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Indonesian: semboyan — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Irish: mana — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Italian: motto — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Japanese: モットー (mottō) — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Japanese: 座右の銘 (zayūnomei) — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Japanese: 標語 (hyōgo) — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Kazakh: ұран (ūran) — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Khmer: បាវចនា (paavaʼcaʼnaa) — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Korean: 좌우명 (jwaumyeong) — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Korean: 모토 (moto) — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Korean: 표어 (pyoeo) — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Kyrgyz: ураан (uraan) — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Kyrgyz: девиз (deviz) — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Lao: ຄໍາຂວັນ (kham khuan) — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Latvian: devīze — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Lithuanian: devizas — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Macedonian: мото (moto) — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Macedonian: гесло (geslo) — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Malay: slogan — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Malay: cogan kata — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Malay: moto — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Norwegian Bokmål: motto — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Norwegian Nynorsk: motto — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Occitan: devisa — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Pashto: شعار (šo'ār) — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Dari: شِعَار (ši'ār) — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Iranian Persian: شِعار (še'âr) — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Polish: dewiza — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Polish: motto — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Portuguese: lema — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Portuguese: divisa — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Portuguese: mote — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Romanian: deviză — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Russian: деви́з (devíz) — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Scottish Gaelic: facal-suaicheantais — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Serbo-Croatian: деви́за — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Serbo-Croatian: мо̏то — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Serbo-Croatian: deviza — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Serbo-Croatian: mȍto — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Slovak: motto — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Slovene: moto — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Spanish: mote — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Spanish: divisa — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Spanish: lema — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Swedish: motto — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Swedish: valspråk — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Swedish: devis — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Tagalog: bansag — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Tagalog: lema — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Tagalog: moto — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Tajik: шиор (šior) — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Tamil: குறிக்கோளுரை (kuṟikkōḷurai) — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Thai: คําขวัญ (kam-kwǎn) — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Thai: คติพจน์ — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Turkish: slogan — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Turkish: motto — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Turkish: şiar — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Turkmen: şygar — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Ukrainian: деві́з (devíz) — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Ukrainian: га́сло (háslo) — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Urdu: شِعار (śi'ār) — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Uzbek: deviz — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Uzbek: shior — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Vietnamese: tiêu ngữ — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Welsh: arwyddair — sentence, phrase or word forming part of a heraldic achievement
• Armenian: նշանաբան (nšanaban) — suggestive sentence, phrase or word
• Armenian: բնաբան (bnaban) — suggestive sentence, phrase or word
• Bulgarian: мо́то (móto) — suggestive sentence, phrase or word
• Catalan: lema — suggestive sentence, phrase or word
• Chinese Mandarin: 格言 (géyán) — suggestive sentence, phrase or word
• Chinese Mandarin: 座右銘 /座右铭 (zuòyòumíng) — suggestive sentence, phrase or word
• Chinese Mandarin: 標語 /标语 (biāoyǔ) — suggestive sentence, phrase or word
• Czech: motto — suggestive sentence, phrase or word
• Danish: motto — suggestive sentence, phrase or word
• Dutch: motto — suggestive sentence, phrase or word
• Finnish: motto — suggestive sentence, phrase or word
• Finnish: tunnuslause — suggestive sentence, phrase or word
• French: devise — suggestive sentence, phrase or word
• German: Motto — suggestive sentence, phrase or word
• Hungarian: mottó — suggestive sentence, phrase or word
• Japanese: モットー (mottō) — suggestive sentence, phrase or word
• Japanese: 標語 (hyōgo) — suggestive sentence, phrase or word
• Korean: 표어 (pyoeo) — suggestive sentence, phrase or word
• Polish: dewiza — suggestive sentence, phrase or word
• Polish: motto — suggestive sentence, phrase or word
• Portuguese: lema — suggestive sentence, phrase or word
• Portuguese: mote — suggestive sentence, phrase or word
• Russian: деви́з (devíz) — suggestive sentence, phrase or word
• Scottish Gaelic: ceann-sgrìobhadh — suggestive sentence, phrase or word
• Spanish: lema — suggestive sentence, phrase or word
• Swedish: motto — suggestive sentence, phrase or word
• Tagalog: kasabihan — suggestive sentence, phrase or word
• Thai: คําขวัญ (kam-kwǎn) — suggestive sentence, phrase or word
• Thai: คติ (ká-dtì) — suggestive sentence, phrase or word
• Thai: คติพจน์ — suggestive sentence, phrase or word
• Turkish: motto — suggestive sentence, phrase or word
• Ukrainian: деві́з (devíz) — suggestive sentence, phrase or word