muodo

Italian

Etymology

From a diphthongization of Classical Latin modus, from Proto-Italic *modōs, from Proto-Indo-European *mod-ōs (“measure”), from *med- (“to measure”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmwɔ.do/
• Rhymes: -ɔdo
• Hyphenation: muò‧do

Noun

muodo m (plural muodi)

1. (regional) Obsolete form of modo.
   1. way, manner
      • 1350s, anonymous author, “Prologo e primo capitolo [Preface and first chapter]”, in Cronica [Chronicle]‎^[1] (overall work in Old Italian); republished as Giuseppe Porta, editor, Anonimo romano - Cronica, Adelphi, 1979, →ISBN:

        Livro non ne facevano, ché lettera non se trovava appo li Grieci. E questo muodo servaro li Romani per tutta Italia e in Francia e massimamente in Roma

        No books were made, because there were no letters among the Greeks. And the Romans maintained this way across all of Italy and France, and especially in Rome