motive (anything that prompts a choice of action) · motive (a reason for criminal behaviour) · recital (a numbered division unit of reasoning written in front of a statute)
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der. Proto-Italic *moweō Latin moveō Latin mōtus Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Latin motivuslbor. Polish motyw Learned borrowing from Latin motivus.
köken: From Old Latin caussa, from Proto-Italic *kaussā, further origin unknown. Connected by some to Latin cudo (“to strike”), in the sense "strike a cause," in which the Proto-Indo-European form would be *kewh₂-ud-ʰ-t-, from *kewh₂- (“to cut, strike”). Others are skeptical of an Indo-European origin. Related to Etruscan 𐌂𐌀𐌅𐌔𐌀 (cavsa).
aile: accūsō, causārius, causidicus, causor, causula, excūsō, incūsō, recūsō
qua de causa/qua de re/quam ob causam
Ille diēs prīmus lētī prīmusque malōrum causa fuit …. That day – a first of death, and onset of misery – it was the cause [of everything].
SĪMŌ: Nē haec quidem / satis vehemēns causa ad objūrgandum.
köken: From Middle Low German vornuft, cognate with German Vernunft, derived from the verb Vernehmen (“realize, learning, taking”). Equivalent to a verbal noun of fornemme.
köken: By surface analysis, alas (“base”) + an, from Malay alasan, from Classical Malay السن (alasan), from Javanese ꦲꦭꦱꦤ꧀ (alasan, “reason, excuse”), from Old Javanese aleśyan (“on the pretext of”), leśya, liśya (“excuse, pretext”), from Prakrit *lissa, *līsa, *lēssa (“defective”), from Sanskrit लेश (leśa, “figure of speech”), लिश् (liś, “move, go”).