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modicus
modicus
Latin
Adjective
modicus m (feminine modica, neuter modicum); first/second declension
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | modicus | modica | modicum | modicī | modicae | modica | |
| genitive | modicī | modicae | modicī | modicōrum | modicārum | modicōrum | |
| dative | modicō | modicō | modicīs | ||||
| accusative | modicum | modicam | modicum | modicōs | modicās | modica | |
| ablative | modicō | modicā | modicō | modicīs | |||
| vocative | modice | modica | modicum | modicī | modicae | modica | |
Descendants
References
- modicus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- modicus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “modicus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to bear a thing with resignation, composure: humane, modice, moderate, sapienter, constanter ferre aliquid
- to be moderate in all things, commit no excess: omnia modice agere
- with moderation and judgment: modice ac sapienter
- to bear a thing with resignation, composure: humane, modice, moderate, sapienter, constanter ferre aliquid