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noun a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks
adjective of or relating to locomotion
originFrom French locomotif, from Latin locō (literally “from a place”) (ablative of locus (“place”)) + Vulgar Latin mōtivus (“moving”) (see motive). In the rail transport sense, ellipsis of locomotive (steam) engine, attested from 1814.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0