modern

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle French moderne, from Late Latin modernus; from Latin modo (just now), originally ablative of modus (measure); hence, by measure, "just now". See also mode.

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modern (comparative moderner or more modern, superlative modernest or most modern)

  1. Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.
    Our online interactive game is a modern approach to teaching about gum disease.Although it was built in the 1600s, the building still has a very modern look.
    • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., [], →OCLC:
      But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window [].
    • 1930 May 31, “The "Overhead Door" for Garage-Factory-Warehouse”, in The Saturday Evening Post[1], volume 202, number 48, page 110:
      The "Overhead Door" is the garage door that can be opened or closed at a touch every day in the year—regardless of the weather. It is the garage door that opens UP Completely Out of the Way. In short, it is the modern door for the modern garage—in step with the times.
    • 2018 June 14, Timothy Snyder, “How Did the Nazis Gain Power in Germany?”, in The New York Times:
      In fact, he had created the conditions for the great horror of modern times.
    • 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
      The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
  2. (history) Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography.

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Noun[edit]

modern (plural moderns)

  1. Someone who lives in modern times.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, [], →OCLC:
      The only supernatural agents which can in any manner be allowed to us moderns, are ghosts; but of these I would advise an author to be extremely sparing.
    • 1779, Edward Capell, John Collins, Notes and various readings to Shakespeare:
      What the moderns could mean by their suppression of the final couplet's repeatings, cannot be conceiv'd []
    • 1930, G. K. Chesterton, The Resurrection of Rome:
      They at least had the immense and mighty imagination of which I speak; they could unthink the past. They could uncreate the Fall. With a reverence which moderns might think impudence, they could uncreate the Creation.
    • 1956, John Albert Wilson, The Culture of Ancient Egypt, page 144:
      Even though we moderns can never crawl inside the skin of the ancient and think and feel as he did [] we must as historians make the attempt.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 181:
      Yeats understood these ancient mysteries better than any modern.

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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin modernus.

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Adjective[edit]

modern (feminine moderna, masculine plural moderns, feminine plural modernes)

  1. modern

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Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Middle French moderne, from Latin modernus.

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modern (comparative moderner, superlative modernst)

  1. modern
  2. (historical, Protestantism) modernist
    Synonym: modernistisch

Inflection[edit]

Inflection of modern
uninflected modern
inflected moderne
comparative moderner
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial modern moderner het modernst
het modernste
indefinite m./f. sing. moderne modernere modernste
n. sing. modern moderner modernste
plural moderne modernere modernste
definite moderne modernere modernste
partitive moderns moderners

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Descendants[edit]

  • Indonesian: modern
  • Papiamentu: modern (dated)

German[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Moder (moldiness).

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Verb[edit]

modern (weak, third-person singular present modert, past tense moderte, past participle gemodert, auxiliary haben)

  1. to rot, to molder
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Etymology 2[edit]

From French moderne, from Latin modernus.

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modern (strong nominative masculine singular moderner, comparative moderner, superlative am modernsten)

  1. modern
  2. state-of-the-art
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Hungarian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English modern and German modern, from French moderne, from Medieval Latin modernus.[1]

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modern (comparative modernebb, superlative legmodernebb)

  1. modern
    Synonym: korszerű

Declension[edit]

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative modern modernek
accusative modernet moderneket
dative modernnek moderneknek
instrumental modernnel modernekkel
causal-final modernért modernekért
translative modernné modernekké
terminative modernig modernekig
essive-formal modernként modernekként
essive-modal
inessive modernben modernekben
superessive modernen moderneken
adessive modernnél moderneknél
illative modernbe modernekbe
sublative modernre modernekre
allative modernhez modernekhez
elative modernből modernekből
delative modernről modernekről
ablative moderntől modernektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
moderné moderneké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
modernéi modernekéi

References[edit]

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Further reading[edit]

  • modern in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Hunsrik[edit]

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modern

  1. modern

Declension[edit]

Declension of modern (see also Appendix:Hunsrik adjectives)
masculine feminine neuter plural
Weak inflection nominative modern modern modern moderne
accusative moderne modern modern moderne
dative moderne moderne moderne moderne
Strong inflection nominative moderner moderne modernes moderne
accusative moderne moderne modernes moderne
dative modernem moderner modernem moderne

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Indonesian[edit]

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Alternative forms[edit]

  • moden (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)
  • moderen (nonstandard Indonesian)

Etymology[edit]

From Dutch modern, from Middle French moderne, from Latin modernus, from modo (just now), originally ablative of modus (measure); hence, by measure, "just now". Doublet of mode, model, modul, and modus.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [moˈdɛr(ə̆)n]
  • Hyphenation: mo‧dèrn

Adjective[edit]

modèrn

  1. modern.
    Synonyms: terbaru, mutakhir

Noun[edit]

modèrn (first-person possessive modernku, second-person possessive modernmu, third-person possessive modernnya)

  1. modern.

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Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French moderne.

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Adjective[edit]

modern m or n (feminine singular modernă, masculine plural moderni, feminine and neuter plural moderne)

  1. modern

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Swedish[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From French moderne, from Late Latin modernus.

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Adjective[edit]

modern (comparative modernare, superlative modernast)

  1. modern
  2. in fashion
Declension[edit]
Inflection of modern
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular modern modernare modernast
Neuter singular modernt modernare modernast
Plural moderna modernare modernast
Masculine plural3 moderne modernare modernast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 moderne modernare modernaste
All moderna modernare modernaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic
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Etymology 2[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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Noun[edit]

modern

  1. definite singular of moder
  2. definite singular of mor

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Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From French moderne

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modern

  1. modern

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