modo

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

modo

1. tree
2. wood

• IPA^(key): /ˈmodo/

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• Rhymes: -odo
• Hyphenation: mo‧do

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

1. (grammar) mood
2. fashion, style

From Latin modus.

modo m (plural modos)

1. mode, manner

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmo.do/, /ˈmɔ.dɔ/

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.do/

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• Rhymes: -ɔdo
• Hyphenation: mò‧do

modo m (plural modi)

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

• domo, domò

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).

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

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.)

modō m

1. dative/ablative singular of modus

• grosso modo

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

• “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^[1], 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)
    

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

• Hyphenation: mo‧do

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)

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

From Latin modo.

modo

1. (Campidanese, medieval) now

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

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

From Proto-Slavic *mǫdo.

• IPA^(key): /mòːdɔ/, /móːdɔ/

mọ̄do n

1. testicle

• módnik
• obmọ̑dək

• testikuláren

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

From Latin modus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmodo/ [ˈmo.ð̞o]

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• Rhymes: -odo
• Syllabification: mo‧do

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.

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

• “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