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Latin
Etymology
From modus (“(due) measure”) + -icus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
modicus (feminine modica, neuter modicum); first/second-declension adjective
- moderate
- Synonym: moderātus
- temperate, restrained
- reasonable
- humble, poor
- Synonyms: dēmissus, ignōbilis, humilis, abiectus
- mean, scanty, small
- Synonyms: parcus, paucus, perpaucus
- Antonym: nimius
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “modicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “modicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- modicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to bear a thing with resignation, composure: humane, modice, moderate, sapienter, constanter ferre aliquid
- to be moderate in all things, commit no excess: omnia modice agere
- with moderation and judgment: modice ac sapienter