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Galician
Etymology
From Latin modestia.
Noun
modestia f (plural modestias)
- modesty
Further reading
Italian
Etymology
From Latin modestia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /moˈdɛ.stja/
- Rhymes: -ɛstja
- Hyphenation: mo‧dè‧stia
Noun
modestia f (plural modestie)
- modesty
Further reading
- modestia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From modestus + -ia.
Pronunciation
Noun
modestia f (genitive modestiae); first declension
- moderation, sophrosyne
- modesty
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “modestia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “modestia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- modestia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- discipline (insubordination): modestia (opp. immodestia)
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin modestia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /moˈdestja/
- Rhymes: -estja
- Syllabification: mo‧des‧tia
Noun
modestia f (plural modestias)
- modesty
- Synonym: pudor
Further reading