moderor

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the same root as modus m (measure, manner), but not directly derived from this noun, which declines in Latin as a masculine o-stem. The form moderor was presumably built on a neuter s-stem noun derived from Proto-Indo-European *med- (to measure) + *-os (noun-forming suffix), whose existence is also indirectly attested by the -es- found in modestus.

Pronunciation

Verb

moderor (present infinitive moderārī or moderārier, perfect active moderātus sum); first conjugation, deponent

  1. to set a measure or bounds to; moderate, mitigate, allay, qualify.
    Synonyms: molliō, sopiō, lēniō, mītigō, sileō, sedō, domō
  2. to restrain
    Synonyms: fīniō, supprimō, refrēnō, obstō, arceō, intersaepiō, claudō, interclūdō, retineō, coerceō, delīmitō, līmitō, moror
  3. (by extension) to manage, arrange, regulate, rule, guide, govern, direct, control. (dative or accusative)
    Synonyms: dominor, imperō, gerō, imperitō, rēgnō, regō, magistrō, ōrdinō, dispēnsō

Conjugation

1The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • moderor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • moderor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • moderor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to manage a horse: moderari equum
    • to show moderation in a matter: moderari aliquid (Flacc. 5. 12)
  • “moderare” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN