Editing Motet (section)

==Etymology==
In the early 20th century, it was generally believed ''motet'' came from the [[Latin]] ''movere'' (to move), though a derivation from the French {{lang|fr|mot}} ("word", or "phrase") had also been suggested. The [[Medieval Latin]] for "motet" is ''motectum'', and the Italian {{lang|it|mottetto}} was also used.<ref>{{CathEncy|author=William Henry Grattan Flood|wstitle=Motet}}</ref> If the word is from Latin, the name describes the movement of the different voices against one another. Today, however, the French [[etymology]] is favoured by reference books, as the word "motet" in 13th-century French had the sense of "little word".<ref>{{OED|motet}} entry "Motet".</ref><ref>Willi Apel, “Motet”, ''Harvard Dictionary of Music'', second edition (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1969). {{ISBN|0674375017}}.</ref><ref>James Peter Burkholder, Donald Jay Grout, and Claude V. Palisca ''A History of Western Music'', eighth edition (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010): 102. {{ISBN|978-0-393-93125-9}}.</ref><ref>Jerome Roche and Elizabeth Roche. "Motet". ''The Oxford Companion to Music'', edited by Alison Latham (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001). {{ISBN|978-0-19-866212-9}}.</ref> The [[trope (music)|troped]] ''[[Clausula (music)|clausulas]]'' that were the forerunner of the motet were originally called ''motelli'' (from the French ''mot'', "word"), soon replaced by the term {{lang|la|moteti}}.<ref name="NewGrove" />