modestus
Appearance
See also: Modestus
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the same root as modus m (“measure, manner”), but not directly derived from this noun, which declines in Latin as a masculine o-stem. The form modestus is made up of components derived from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”) + *-os (noun-forming suffix) + *-tós (adjective-forming suffix) (Classical Latin -tus); this implies the existence at some point of a neuter s-stem noun (also indirectly attested by the -er- found in moderor). Compare scelestus, derived from the s-stem noun scelus n (or an ancestral form of it).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /moˈdes.tus/, [mɔˈd̪ɛs̠t̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /moˈdes.tus/, [moˈd̪ɛst̪us]
Adjective
[edit]modestus (feminine modesta, neuter modestum, comparative modestior, superlative modestissimus, adverb modestē); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | modestus | modesta | modestum | modestī | modestae | modesta | |
genitive | modestī | modestae | modestī | modestōrum | modestārum | modestōrum | |
dative | modestō | modestae | modestō | modestīs | |||
accusative | modestum | modestam | modestum | modestōs | modestās | modesta | |
ablative | modestō | modestā | modestō | modestīs | |||
vocative | modeste | modesta | modestum | modestī | modestae | modesta |
Derived terms
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[edit]References
[edit]- “modestus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “modestus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- modestus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “modestus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “modestus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray