modo

See also: Appendix:Variations of "modo"

Daur

Etymology

From Proto-Mongolic *modu, compare Mongolian мод (mod).

Noun

modo

1. tree
2. wood

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmodo/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -odo
• Hyphenation: mo‧do

Noun

modo (accusative singular modon, plural modoj, accusative plural modojn)

1. (grammar) mood
2. fashion, style

Galician

Etymology

From Latin modus.

Noun

modo m (plural modos)

1. mode, manner

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto modo (“mood”), from English mode, French mode, German Modus, Italian modo, Russian мо́да (móda), Spanish modo, all ultimately from Latin modus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmo.do/, /ˈmɔ.dɔ/

Noun

modo (plural modi)

1. mode (a passing usage which depends upon taste, caprice)
2. fashion, style
3. (grammar) mood (indicative, imperative, etc.)
4. (philosophy, music) mode
5. (law) modus

Derived terms

• ekmoda (“old-fashioned”)
  • ekmodeskar (“to become out of fashion”)
  • ekmodigar (“to cause to go out of fashion”)
• enmoda (“in fashion”)
  • enmodeskar (“to become in fashion”)
  • enmodigar (“to cause to go in fashion”)
• modala (“modal”)
  • modaleso (“modality”)

Italian

Etymology

From Latin modus, from Proto-Indo-European *modós, derived from the root *med- (“to measure”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.do/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔdo
• Hyphenation: mò‧do

Noun

modo m (plural modi)

1. manner, way
2. (grammar) mood
3. (music) style, manner

Related terms

• a mo' di
• a modo
• a modo mio
• ad ogni modo
• ammodo
• di modo che
• in malo modo
• in modo da
• in nessun modo
• in ogni modo
• in un modo o nell'altro
• modale
• modalità
• modo di fare
• modo di vedere
• per modo di dire

Anagrams

• domo, domò

Latin

Etymology

From modus (“measure, mode, manner, way”); the adverb derives from its ablative form. The short vowel in the adverb is an example of iambic shortening that became conventional in Classical Latin (as in ego).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmɔ.doː], [ˈmɔ.dɔ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɔː.d̪o]

Adverb

modō̆

1. just, only, merely, simply

   Synonyms: tantum, sōlum

   Tunc, (ille) modo edere volēbat. ― At that time, he wanted only to eat.

   Semel modo nōn satis.

   Only one time is not enough.

2. recently, just now

   Latrōcinium modo factum est. ― A robbery has just now taken place.

3. presently
4. (modo … modo) now … now; now … and then; sometimes … sometimes; at one time … at another
   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 1.2.4:

     “Sed modo,” inquis, “hunc librum ēvolvere volō, modo illum.”

     “But now,” you say, “I want to unroll this book, then that [one].”
     (In other words, opening one scroll after another, never reading a single author in-depth.)

Derived terms

• modernus
• non modo
• solummodo
• tantummodo

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: modu
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Dalmatian: mut
  • Italian: mo (partially)
  • Neapolitan: mo (partially)
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Romagnol: mo
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: (see there for further descendants)
  • *ad modo
  • *eccum modo

Noun

modō m

1. dative/ablative singular of modus

See also

• grosso modo

References

• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “mŏdo”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 412

Further reading

• “modo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “modo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "modo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “modo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to translate freely: his fere verbis, hoc fere modo convertere, transferre
    
  • (ambiguous) with no moderation: sine modo; nullo modo adhibito
    
  • (ambiguous) to flee like deer, sheep: pecorum modo fugere (Liv. 40. 27)
    

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin modus (“measure; manner”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.du/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.du/
  • (Porto Alegre) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.do/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.du/ [ˈmɔ.ðu]

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: mo‧do

Noun

modo m (plural modos)

1. mode; way; method (method or manner of doing something)

   Synonyms: jeito, maneira, método, moda

2. mode; state; condition

   Synonyms: condição, estado

3. (grammar) mood
4. (music) mode (one of several ancient scales)

Hyponyms

• (grammatical mood): conjuntivo/subjuntivo (modo conjuntivo/modo subjuntivo), gerúndio, imperativo, indicativo (modo indicativo), infinitivo, particípio

Related terms

• moda
• modal

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin modo.

Adverb

modo

1. (Campidanese, medieval) now

Descendants

• ⇒ Campidanese: immòu, immò, immòi (paragogic vowel), immúi, immú

References

• Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964), “kòmo”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *mǫdo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mòːdɔ/, /móːdɔ/

Noun

mọ̄do n

1. testicle

Declension

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Neuter, hard
nom. sing.	módo
gen. sing.	móda
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	módo	módi	móda
genitive (rodȋlnik)	móda	mód	mód
dative (dajȃlnik)	módu	módoma	módom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	módo	módi	móda
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	módu	módih	módih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	módom	módoma	módi

Derived terms

• módnik
• obmọ̑dək

See also

• testikuláren

Further reading

• “modo”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin modus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmodo/ [ˈmo.ð̞o]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -odo
• Syllabification: mo‧do

Noun

modo m (plural modos)

1. way, manner

   Synonyms: manera, forma

   a mi modo de ver

   the way I see it

2. (grammar) mood
3. (following "ni") (no) matter; (there is no) solution (but oh well)

   Ni modo, es un trabajo sucio pero alguien tiene que hacerlo.

   No matter, it's a dirty job but somebody has to do it.

Hyponyms

• infinitivo
• modo imperativo, imperativo
• modo indicativo
• modo subjuntivo, subjuntivo
• modo condicional
• optativo

Derived terms

• a modo de
• de algún modo
• de cualquier modo
• de igual modo
• de modo que
• de ningún modo
• de otro modo
• de todos modos
• de un modo u otro
• del mismo modo
• dicho de otro modo
• en cierto modo
• escala del modo
• modismo
• modo avión
• modo condicional
• modo de acción
• modo de adquirir
• modo de articulación
• modo de producción
• modo imperativo
• modo indicativo
• modo subjuntivo
• modoso
• ni modo

Related terms

• moderno

Further reading

• “modo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024