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Italian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin modicus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
modico (feminine modica, masculine plural modici, feminine plural modiche)
- low, modest, moderate, reasonable
Derived terms
Further reading
- modico in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Latin
Noun
modicō
- dative/ablative singular of modicum
References
- “modico”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- modico in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.