# mover
## English
### Etymology

From move +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmuːvə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Hyphenation: mov‧er
* Rhymes: -uːvə(ɹ)

### Noun

mover (plural movers)
* Someone who or something that moves.
* A dancer.
* A person employed to help people move their possessions from one residence to another.
    Synonym: (chiefly Australia) removalist
    I'm getting too old to expect my friends to schlep all my stuff for beer and pizza. I'm hiring movers this time.
* Someone who proposes a motion at a meeting.
* A product that sells well.
** 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 389:"The Celtic Soul Brothers" (#86, 1983) was a moderate mover of a follow-up.
* (chess, in combination) A chess problem in which the solver must attain checkmate within the specified number of moves.

#### Derived terms

* fast mover
* first mover
* household goods mover
* house mover
* mover and shaker
* needle-mover
* needle mover
* people mover
* prime mover
* side mover
* unmoved mover

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* vomer

## Aragonese
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin movēre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /moˈbe(ɾ)/
* Rhymes: -e(ɾ)
* Syllabification: mo‧ver

### Verb

mover
* to move

## Asturian
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin movēre.

### Verb

mover
* to move

#### Related terms

* movimientu

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese mover, from Latin movēre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /moˈbeɾ/ [moˈβ̞eɾ]
* Rhymes: -eɾ
* Hyphenation: mo‧ver

### Verb

mover (first-person singular present movo, first-person singular preterite movín, past participle movido) mover (first-person singular present movo, first-person singular preterite movim or movi, past participle movido, reintegrationist norm)
* to move

#### Conjugation

$^1$Less recommended.

### Further reading

* “mover”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
* “mover” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

## Interlingua
### Verb

mover
* (transitive) to move
mover se
* (reflexive) to move

#### Conjugation

| infinitive | infinitive | mover | mover |
| participle | participle | present | perfect |
| participle | participle | movente | movite |
| active | | simple | perfect |
| active | present | move | ha movite |
| active | past | moveva | habeva movite |
| active | future | movera | habera movite |
| active | conditional | moverea | haberea movite |
| active | imperative | move | |
| passive | | simple | perfect |
| passive | present | es movite | ha essite movite |
| passive | past | esseva movite | habeva essite movite |
| passive | future | essera movite | habera essite movite |
| passive | conditional | esserea movite | haberea essite movite |
| passive | imperative | sia movite | |

## Old French
### Verb

mover
* (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of movoir

## Old Occitan
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *movĕre, from Latin movēre (“to move”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɔveɾ/

### Verb

mover
* to move

#### Descendants

* Occitan: mòure, mòver, mòguer

### References

* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “movēre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 463

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese mover, from Latin movēre. Compare Spanish mover, French mouvoir.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /moˈve(ʁ)/ [moˈve(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /moˈve(ʁ)/ [moˈve(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /moˈve(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /moˈve(ʁ)/ [moˈve(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /moˈve(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /muˈveɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /muˈveɾ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /muˈbeɾ/ [muˈβeɾ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /muˈve.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: mo‧ver

### Verb

mover (first-person singular present movo, first-person singular preterite movi, past participle movido)
* to move (change position)
    Synonyms: deslocar, mexer, movimentar
* to induce; to persuade
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:induzir
* (law, with contra following the object) to sue (file legal action)
    Synonym: processar
    João moveu uma ação contra Pedro. ― John sued Peter.
* (chess and other games) to move (change the place of a piece)
    Synonyms: mexer, movimentar

#### Related terms

* automobilístico
* automóvel
* autopromover
* comover
* contramovimento
* imobiliária
* imóvel
* mobiliar
* movediço
* movedor
* móvel
* moveleiro
* movimentação
* movimento
* movível
* mudar
* promover
* remover
* telemóvel

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish mover, from Latin movēre. Compare English move.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: /moˈbeɾ/ [moˈβ̞eɾ]
* Rhymes: -eɾ
* Syllabification: mo‧ver

### Verb

mover (first-person singular present muevo, first-person singular preterite moví, past participle movido)
* (transitive) to move (to cause to change place or posture)
* (transitive) to shake (e.g. to shake one's head, to shake one's tail feather)
* (transitive) to wiggle (e.g. one's ears, fingers, nose, toes)
* (transitive) to wag (e.g., an animal's tail wagging)
* (transitive) to move to, to cause to
* (transitive) to swing (e.g. a sword, a bat, a tennis racket, one's tail)
* (reflexive) to move (to change place or posture)
* (reflexive) to shift
    La tierra se movió.The ground shifted.
* (reflexive) to move around, to get around, to drift (i.e. make one's way about a place, to navigate or travel)
* (reflexive) to budge, to stir, to twitch, to fidget, to move (in an agitated manner)
    La bebé no se movió para nada toda la noche.The baby didn't stir at all the entire night.
    ¡Deja de moverte!Stop fidgeting!
* (reflexive) to get a move on (idiom)
* (reflexive) to be moved (by a performance, etc.)

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

#### Derived terms

* agua pasada no mueve molino
* mover cielo y tierra
* mover de salmer
* mover el banquillo
* mover el esqueleto
* mover los hilos (“to pull strings”)
* no mover un dedo

#### Related terms

* amover
* conmover
* moción
* movida
* movido
* movimiento
* mudar
* mueble
* remover

### Further reading

* “mover”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10