modico

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See also: módico

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin modicus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɔ.di.ko/
  • Rhymes: -ɔdiko
  • Hyphenation: mò‧di‧co

Adjective

modico (feminine modica, masculine plural modici, feminine plural modiche)

  1. low, modest, moderate, reasonable

Derived terms

Further reading

  • modico in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Latin

Noun

modicō

  1. 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.