modicus
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From modus (“(due) measure”) + -icus.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈmo.di.kus/, [ˈmɔd̪ɪkʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmo.di.kus/, [ˈmɔːd̪ikus]
Adjective
[edit]modicus (feminine modica, neuter modicum); first/second-declension adjective
- moderate
- Synonym: moderātus
- temperate, restrained
- reasonable
- humble, poor
- mean, scanty, small
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | modicus | modica | modicum | modicī | modicae | modica | |
genitive | modicī | modicae | modicī | modicōrum | modicārum | modicōrum | |
dative | modicō | modicae | modicō | modicīs | |||
accusative | modicum | modicam | modicum | modicōs | modicās | modica | |
ablative | modicō | modicā | modicō | modicīs | |||
vocative | modice | modica | modicum | modicī | modicae | modica |
Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: mòdic
- → English: modicum
- → French: modique
- → Italian: modico
- → Portuguese: módico
- → Romanian: modic
- → Spanish: módico
References
[edit]- “modicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “modicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- modicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to bear a thing with resignation, composure: humane, modice, moderate, sapienter, constanter ferre aliquid
- to be moderate in all things, commit no excess: omnia modice agere
- with moderation and judgment: modice ac sapienter
- to bear a thing with resignation, composure: humane, modice, moderate, sapienter, constanter ferre aliquid
Categories:
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *med-
- Latin terms suffixed with -icus
- Latin 3-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin adjectives
- Latin first and second declension adjectives
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook