modicus
Latin
Etymology
Etymology tree
From modus (“(due) measure”) + -icus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈmɔ.dɪ.kʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmɔː.di.kus]
Adjective
modicus (feminine modica, neuter modicum); first/second-declension adjective
- moderate
- Synonym: moderātus
- temperate, restrained
- reasonable
- humble, poor
- mean, scanty, small
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
- → Catalan: mòdic
- → English: modicum
- → French: modique
- → Italian: modico
- → Portuguese: módico
- → Romanian: modic
- → Spanish: módico
References
- “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