mod

See also: Mod, MOD, MoD, mód, mōd, möd, and mod.

English

Etymology 1

Abbreviations.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /mɑd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mɒd/

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɒd
• Homophone: Maud (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Noun

mod (countable and uncountable, plural mods)

1. (uncountable) An unconventionally modern style of fashionable dress originating in England in the 1960s, characterized by ankle-length black trenchcoats and sunglasses.
2. (Britain) A 1960s British person who dressed in such a style and was interested in modernism and the modern music of the time; the opposite of a rocker.
3. (informal) Clipping of modification.
4. (video games) An end user-created package containing modifications to the look or behaviour of a video game.
5. (Internet) A moderator, for example on a discussion forum.
6. (computing, informal) A module (file containing a tracker music sequence).
   • 1992, "Jordan K. Hubbard", How to convert Amiga mods to Arch? (on Internet newsgroup comp.sys.acorn)

     I'd like to convert some of the arch^[sic] mods back into Amiga mods since I don't have the original Amiga versions.

   • 2003, Rene T. A. Lysloff, Leslie C. Gay, Jr., Music and Technoculture (page 38)

     These mods, while usually having the distinctive bleep and beep quality of transistor-generated tones, are often astonishingly creative and rich in expressive nuances.

7. (rock climbing) A moderately difficult route.
8. (in the plural, Oxford University, informal) Moderations: university examinations generally taken in the first year.
9. (mathematics, programming) Abbreviation of modulus.

   Synonyms: %, modulus

10. (statistics) Abbreviation of mode.

Usage notes

In video gaming, mods are created by end users, whereas such content by the game creators would be called an expansion pack.

Translations

video games: an end user-created package containing modifications for a video game

• Polish: mod (pl) m

• Portuguese: modificação (pt) f, modificador (pt) m, mod m
• Spanish: modificación (es) f

Verb

mod (third-person singular simple present mods, present participle modding, simple past and past participle modded)

1. (transitive, informal) To modify (an object) from its original condition, typically for the purposes of individualizing and/or enhancing the performance of the object.

   His friends were particularly impressed with the way he modded his Ruckus.

   Synonyms: trick, trick out

2. (transitive, Internet, informal) To moderate; to silence or punish (a rule-breaking user) on a forum, especially when done by a moderator.

   Don't break the rules or you'll be modded.

   I used to mod that forum.

Derived terms

• demod
• moddable
• modder

 

Adjective

mod (not comparable)

1. Abbreviation of moderate.

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

mod (plural mods)

1. A festival of Scottish Gaelic song, arts and culture, akin to the Welsh eisteddfod.

Anagrams

• -dom, DOM, Dom, Dom., ODM, dom, dom.

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmoˀð], [ˈmoðˀ]
• Rhymes: -oð

Etymology 1

From Old Norse móðr, from Proto-Germanic *mōdaz, cognate with English mood, German Mut.

Noun

mod n (singular definite modet, not used in plural form)

1. courage
2. mood

Synonyms

• (formal) courage, kurage c
• tapperhed c

Etymology 2

From Old Norse í mót, i.e. the preposition í (“in”) + the noun mót (“meeting”) (compare i møde), from Proto-Germanic *mōtą, cognate with English moot.

Preposition

mod or imod

1. against
2. versus
3. towards
4. into
5. from

Usage notes

• The two forms, mod and imod, are interchangeable. In the contemporary language, the shorter form is used ca. 10 times as much as the longer one. As an adverb, only the longer form is used.

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Middle English

Noun

mod

1. Alternative form of mode (“intellect, mood, will, courage, nature”)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

mod n (definite singular modet, uncountable)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by mot

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mē-, *mō-. Cognate with Old High German muot (German Mut), Old Saxon mōd, Old Dutch muot (Dutch (gee)moed), Old Norse móðr (“anger, grief”) (Swedish mod), Gothic 𐌼𐍉𐌸𐍃 (mōþs, “anger, emotion”). The Proto-Indo-European root was also the source of Ancient Greek μῶθαι (môthai) and Latin mōs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moːd/

Noun

mōd n

1. mind
   • Adrian and Ritheus

     Mannes mōd biþ on þām hēafde and gǣþ ūt þurh þone mūþ.

     A person's mind is in the head and goes out through the mouth.

2. courage, pride, grief, anger
3. state of mind

Declension

Declension of mod (strong-a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	mōd	mōd
accusative	mōd	mōd
genitive	mōdes	mōda
dative	mōde	mōdum

Derived terms

• ēaþmōd (“humble”)
• lēohtmōd (“easy-going”)
• lȳtelmōd (“timid”)
• miċelmōd (“magnanimous”)
• mōdiġ (“proud”)
• mōdlēas (“mindless”)
• mōdsēoc (“mentally ill”)
• ofermōd (“hubris”)
• ormōd (“despairing”)

 

Descendants

• Middle English: mod, mode, mood
  • English: mood
  • Scots: mude, muid

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Romanian

Etymology

From French mode.

Noun

mod n (plural moduri)

1. mode, fashion, style, way
2. (grammar) mode, mood

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

mȏd m (Cyrillic spelling мо̑д)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Declension

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Slovene

Noun

mod

1. genitive dual/plural of modo

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmod/, [ˈmoð̝]

Noun

mod m (plural modes)

1. mod (clarification of this definition is needed)

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse móðr, from Proto-Germanic *mōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mō-, *mē-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muːd/

• audio

  (file)

Noun

mod n

1. courage
2. feeling

Declension

Declension of mod
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	mod	modet	—	—
Genitive	mods	modets	—	—

Anagrams

• -dom, Dom., dom, dom-

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Turkish

Noun

mod (definite accusative modu, plural modlar)

1. mode
2. mood

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Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mooto.

Noun

mod

1. face

Inflection

Inflection of mod
nominative sing.	mod
genitive sing.	modon
partitive sing.	modod
partitive plur.	modoid
	singular	plural
nominative	mod	modod
accusative	modon	modod
genitive	modon	modoiden
partitive	modod	modoid
essive-instructive	modon	modoin
translative	modoks	modoikš
inessive	modos	modoiš
elative	modospäi	modoišpäi
illative	?	modoihe
adessive	modol	modoil
ablative	modolpäi	modoilpäi
allative	modole	modoile
abessive	modota	modoita
comitative	modonke	modoidenke
prolative	mododme	modoidme
approximative I	modonno	modoidenno
approximative II	modonnoks	modoidennoks
egressive	modonnopäi	modoidennopäi
terminative I	?	modoihesai
terminative II	modolesai	modoilesai
terminative III	modossai	—
additive I	?	modoihepäi
additive II	modolepäi	modoilepäi

Derived terms

• käbedmod
• modkuva
• modpolišk

 

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “лицо”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

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Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moːd/

Verb

mod

1. Nasal mutation of bod.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
bod	fod	mod	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.