móvil

/ˈmobil/ · A2 · adj

cellular, cell phone, mobile phone

📱 móvil = mobile: from Latin movere, to move — the phone that moves with you

Same root as English mobile, move and motive. That one root covers every sense: a phone you carry around, a hanging sculpture whose parts move, and a motive — the thing that moves someone to act.

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