mod

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

English[edit]

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Etymology 1[edit]

Abbreviations.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

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. (UK) 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[edit]

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

Translations[edit]

Verb[edit]

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[edit]

Adjective[edit]

mod (not comparable)

  1. Abbreviation of moderate.

Etymology 2[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

mod (plural mods)

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

Anagrams[edit]

Danish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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

  1. courage
  2. mood
Synonyms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

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[edit]

mod or imod

  1. against
  2. versus
  3. towards
  4. into
  5. from
Usage notes[edit]
  • 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.

Maltese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Sicilian modu and/or Italian modo, from Latin modus.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mod m (plural modi or modijiet)

  1. way, manner
    Synonyms: għamla, manjiera

Derived terms[edit]

Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

mod

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

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Noun[edit]

mod n (definite singular modet, uncountable)

  1. (pre-2012) alternative form of mot

Old English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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[edit]

Noun[edit]

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. state of mind
  3. (poetic) courage, pride, grief, anger

Declension[edit]

Declension of mod (strong-a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative mōd mōd
accusative mōd mōd
genitive mōdes mōda
dative mōde mōdum

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Middle English: mod, mode, mood

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French mode.

Noun[edit]

mod n (plural moduri)

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

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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[edit]

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Slovene[edit]

Noun[edit]

mod

  1. genitive dual/plural of modo

Spanish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from English mod, from modern.

Adjective[edit]

mod (invariable)

  1. mod (of the 1960s modern style)

Noun[edit]

mod m (uncountable)

  1. mod (1960s modern style)

Etymology 2[edit]

Borrowed from English mod, from modification.

Noun[edit]

mod m (plural mods)

  1. mod (an end user-created package containing modifications to the look or behaviour of a video game)

Further reading[edit]

Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mod n

  1. courage
  2. feeling

Declension[edit]

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

Derived terms[edit]

Derived terms

References[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

Turkish[edit]

Noun[edit]

mod (definite accusative modu, plural modlar)

  1. mode
  2. mood

Veps[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Finnic *mooto.

Noun[edit]

mod

  1. face

Inflection[edit]

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[edit]

References[edit]

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

Welsh[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

mod

  1. Nasal mutation of bod.

Mutation[edit]

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.
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