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modus

See also: Modus

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin. Doublet of mode.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈməʊdəs/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -əʊdəs

NounEdit

modus (plural modi)

  1. (law, obsolete) The arrangement of, or mode of expressing, the terms of a contract or conveyance.
  2. (law) A qualification involving the idea of variation or departure from some general rule or form, in the way of either restriction or enlargement, according to the circumstances of the case, as in the will of a donor, an agreement between parties, etc.
  3. (law) A fixed compensation or equivalent given instead of payment of tithes in kind, expressed in full by the phrase modus decimandi.
    • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
      To make a good and sufficient modus, the following rules must be observed
    • 1829, Walter Savage Landor, “Duke de Richelieu, Sir Firebrace Cotes, Lady Glengrin. and Mr. Normanby”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume V (second series, volume II), London: James Duncan, […], →OCLC:
      They, from time immemorial, had paid a modus, or composition.
    • 1776, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
      When, instead either of a certain portion of the produce of land, or of the price of a certain portion, a certain sum of money is to be paid in full compensation for all tax or tythe; the tax becomes, in this case, exactly of the same nature with the land tax of England. It neither rises nor falls with the rent of the land. It neither encourages nor discourages improvement. The tythe in the greater part of those parishes which pay what is called a modus, in lieu of all other tythe is a tax of this kind. During the Mahometan government of Bengal, instead of the payment in kind of the fifth part of the produce, a modus, and, it is said, a very moderate one, was established in the greater part of the districts or zemindaries of the country. Some of the servants of the East India company, under pretence of restoring the public revenue to its proper value, have, in some provinces, exchanged this modus for a payment in kind. Under their management, this change is likely both to discourage cultivation, and to give new opportunities for abuse in the collection of the public revenue, which has fallen very much below what it was said to have been when it first fell under the management of the company. The servants of the company may, perhaps, have profited by the change, but at the expense, it is probable, both of their masters and of the country.

Derived termsEdit

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for modus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

AnagramsEdit

CebuanoEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English modus operandi, borrowed from Latin modus operandī.

PronunciationEdit

  • Hyphenation: mo‧dus

NounEdit

modus

  1. ellipsis of modus operandi

QuotationsEdit

For quotations using this term, see Citations:modus.

AnagramsEdit

CzechEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

modus m

  1. (statistics) mode (value occurring most frequently in a distribution)
  2. (music) mode

Related termsEdit

FinnishEdit

EtymologyEdit

< Latin modus

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmodus/, [ˈmo̞dus̠]
  • Rhymes: -odus
  • Syllabification(key): mo‧dus

NounEdit

modus

  1. (grammar) mood

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of modus (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)
nominative modus modukset
genitive moduksen modusten
moduksien
partitive modusta moduksia
illative modukseen moduksiin
singular plural
nominative modus modukset
accusative nom. modus modukset
gen. moduksen
genitive moduksen modusten
moduksien
partitive modusta moduksia
inessive moduksessa moduksissa
elative moduksesta moduksista
illative modukseen moduksiin
adessive moduksella moduksilla
ablative modukselta moduksilta
allative modukselle moduksille
essive moduksena moduksina
translative modukseksi moduksiksi
instructive — moduksin
abessive moduksetta moduksitta
comitative — moduksineen
Possessive forms of modus (type vastaus)
possessor singular plural
1st person modukseni moduksemme
2nd person moduksesi moduksenne
3rd person moduksensa

IndonesianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Learned borrowing from Latin modus. Doublet of mode, model, modul, and modern.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): [ˈmo.dʊs]
  • Hyphenation: mo‧dus

NounEdit

modus (plural modus-modus, first-person possessive modusku, second-person possessive modusmu, third-person possessive modusnya)

  1. mode,
    1. (mathematics, statistics) the most frequently occurring value in a distribution.
    2. (linguistics) mood, a verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.
    3. a particular means of accomplishing something.
      Synonym: cara
  2. (colloquial) modus operandi, a known criminal's established habits and mode of work when committing specific offences, especially fraud, matched with characteristics of an unsolved crime to narrow down (limit to a specific list) or profile suspects.

Alternative formsEdit

  • mod (Standard Malay)

Related termsEdit

Further readingEdit

LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Italic *modōs, from Proto-Indo-European *mod-ōs (“measure”), from *med- (“to measure”).[1] But note as the oblique cases would be expected as *moder- (e.g. gen.: moderis), thus moderor, modestus etc. Contrast mōs for the senses of manner and way.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

modus m (genitive modī); second declension

  1. measure
  2. bound, limit
    Synonyms: līmes, fīnis, cacūmen
  3. manner (of doing or being arranged), way (of doing or being arranged), method
    Synonyms: ratiō, disciplīna
    Quem ad modum ― like, such, in what manner
    hoc modo ― in this manner
    admirandum in modum ― wonderfully (literally: in a wonderful manner)
    miserandum in modum ― miserably (literally: in a miserable manner)
    hostilem in modum ― in a hostile manner (Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita, I, 5)
    • Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico I, 36:
      quem ad modum vellent
      in what manner they pleased
    • 1272, an unknown source in The Natural History of Precious Stones and of the Precious Metals (1867), viii, page 269:
      Una Perla ad modum camahuti.
      A pearl in the manner of a cameo.
  4. (grammar) mood, mode

DeclensionEdit

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative modus modī
Genitive modī modōrum
Dative modō modīs
Accusative modum modōs
Ablative modō modīs
Vocative mode modī

Derived termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

  • → Catalan: mode (learned)
  • → English: mode
  • Old French: mode
    • Middle French: mode
      • French: mode (see there for further descendants)
    • Romanian: mod
  • Friulian: mût
  • Galician: modo
  • → German: Modus
  • → Hungarian: mód
  • Italian: modo
  • → Old Irish: mod
  • Portuguese: modo
  • Sicilian: modu
  • Spanish: modo
  • → Welsh: modd

ReferencesEdit

  • “modus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “modus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • modus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • modus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the melody: modi (De Or. 1. 42. 187)
    • to compose, put to music: modos facere
    • to observe moderation, be moderate: modum tenere, retinere, servare, adhibere
    • to set a limit to a thing: modum facere, statuere, constituere alicui rei or alicuius rei
    • to pass the limit: modum transire
    • to pass the limit: extra modum prodire
    • to pass the limit: ultra modum progredi
    • to show moderation in a matter: moderationem, modum adhibere in aliqua re
    • beyond all measure: extra, praeter modum
    • to limit one's expenditure: sumptibus modum statuere
    • (ambiguous) to translate freely: his fere verbis, hoc fere modo convertere, transferre
    • (ambiguous) with no moderation: sine modo; nullo modo adhibito
    • (ambiguous) to flee like deer, sheep: pecorum modo fugere (Liv. 40. 27)
  • modus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  • DIZIONARIO LATINO OLIVETTI
  1. ^ “modo, mo'” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN

AnagramsEdit

Norwegian BokmålEdit

 
Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
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EtymologyEdit

From Latin modus.

NounEdit

modus m (definite singular modusen, indefinite plural modi or moduser, definite plural modiene or modusene)

  1. mode
  2. (grammar) mood

Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

Norwegian NynorskEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin modus.

NounEdit

modus m (definite singular modusen, indefinite plural modi or modusar, definite plural modiane or modusane)

  1. mode
  2. (grammar) mood

Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

TagalogEdit

EtymologyEdit

Shortened from English modus operandi, from New Latin.

PronunciationEdit

  • Hyphenation: mo‧dus

NounEdit

modus

  1. modus operandi
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