What is the meaning of Motive?

An idea or communication that makes one want to act, especially from spiritual sources; a divine prompting.

An incentive to act in a particular way; a reason or emotion that makes one want to do something; anything that prompts a choice of action.

A limb or other bodily organ that can move.

Something which causes someone to want to commit a crime; a reason for criminal behaviour.

Alternative form of motif

To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.

Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move

Relating to motion and/or to its cause

inflection of motiver:

  1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
  2. second-person singular imperative

first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

second-person singular imperative

vocative masculine singular of mōtīvus

inflection of motivar:

  1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
  2. third-person singular imperative

first/third-person singular present subjunctive

third-person singular imperative

plural of motiv

accusative plural of motiv

vocative singular of motiv

inflection of motivar:

  1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
  2. third-person singular imperative

first/third-person singular present subjunctive

third-person singular imperative

motivated

Source: wiktionary.org