# modo
## Daur
### Etymology

From Proto-Mongolic *modu, compare Mongolian мод (mod).

### Noun

modo
* tree
* wood

## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmodo]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -odo
* Hyphenation: mo‧do

### Noun

modo (accusative singular modon, plural modoj, accusative plural modojn)
* (grammar) mood
* fashion, style

## Galician
### Etymology

From Latin modus.

### Noun

modo m (plural modos)
* mode, manner

## Ido
### Etymology

From Esperanto modo (“mood”), from English mode, French mode, German Modus, Italian modo, Russian мо́да (móda), Spanish modo, all ultimately from Latin modus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmo.do/, /ˈmɔ.dɔ/

### Noun

modo (plural modi)
* mode (a passing usage which depends upon taste, caprice)
* fashion, style
* (grammar) mood (indicative, imperative, etc.)
* (philosophy, music) mode
* (law) modus

#### Derived terms

* ekmoda (“old-fashioned”)
** ekmodeskar (“to become out of fashion”)
** ekmodigar (“to cause to go out of fashion”)
* enmoda (“in fashion”)
** enmodeskar (“to become in fashion”)
** enmodigar (“to cause to go in fashion”)
* modala (“modal”)
** modaleso (“modality”)

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin modus, from Proto-Indo-European *modós, derived from the root *med- (“to measure”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɔ.do/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔdo
* Hyphenation: mò‧do

### Noun

modo m (plural modi)
* manner, way
* (grammar) mood
* (music) style, manner

#### Related terms

* a mo' di
* a modo
* a modo mio
* ad ogni modo
* ammodo
* di modo che
* in malo modo
* in modo da
* in nessun modo
* in ogni modo
* in un modo o nell'altro
* modale
* modalità
* modo di fare
* modo di vedere
* per modo di dire

### Anagrams

* domo, domò

## Latin
### Etymology

From modus (“measure, mode, manner, way”); the adverb derives from its ablative form. The short vowel in the adverb is an example of iambic shortening that became conventional in Classical Latin (as in ego).

### Pronunciation

* modo: (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈmo.do/, [ˈmɔd̪ɔ]
* modo: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈmo.do/, [ˈmɔːd̪o]
* modō: (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈmo.doː/, [ˈmɔd̪oː]
* modō: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈmo.do/, [ˈmɔːd̪o]

### Adverb

modo (not comparable)
* just, only, merely, simply
    Synonyms: tantum, sōlum
    Tunc, (ille) modo edere volēbat. ― At that time, he wanted only to eat.
    Semel modo nōn satis.Only one time is not enough.
* recently, just now
    Latrōcinium modo factum est. ― A robbery has just now taken place.
* presently

#### Usage notes

modo ... modo ― at one time ... at another

#### Derived terms

* modernus
* non modo
* solummodo
* tantummodo

#### Descendants

* Dalmatian: mut
* Italian: mo (archaic or central-southern)
* Neapolitan: mo
* Romagnol: mo
* Sardinian: modu
* ⇒ Vulgar Latin: (see there for further descendants)
** *ad modo
** *eccum modo

### Noun

modō m
* dative/ablative singular of modus

### See also

* grosso modo

### References

* Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “mŏdo”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 412

### Further reading

* “modo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “modo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "modo", 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)
* modo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. (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)

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin modus (“measure; manner”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmɔ.du/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmɔ.du/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈmɔ.do/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈmɔ.du/ [ˈmɔ.ðu]
* Hyphenation: mo‧do

### Noun

modo m (plural modos)
* mode; way; method (method or manner of doing something)
    Synonyms: jeito, maneira, método, moda
* mode; state; condition
    Synonyms: condição, estado
* (grammar) mood
* (music) mode (one of several ancient scales)

#### Hyponyms

* (grammatical mood): conjuntivo/subjuntivo (modo conjuntivo/modo subjuntivo), gerúndio, imperativo, indicativo (modo indicativo), infinitivo, particípio

#### Related terms

* moda
* modal

## Sardinian
### Etymology

From Latin modo.

### Adverb

modo
* (Campidanese, medieval) now

#### Descendants

* ⇒ Campidanese: immòu, immò, immòi (paragogic vowel), immúi, immú

### References

* Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “kòmo”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg

## Slovene
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *mǫdo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mòːdɔ/, /móːdɔ/

### Noun

mọ̄do n
* testicle

#### Derived terms

* módnik
* obmọ̑dək

#### See also

* testikuláren

### Further reading

* “modo”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin modus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmodo/ [ˈmo.ð̞o]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -odo
* Syllabification: mo‧do

### Noun

modo m (plural modos)
* way, manner
    Synonyms: manera, forma
    a mi modo de verthe way I see it
* (grammar) mood
* (following "ni") (no) matter; (there is no) solution (but oh well)
    Ni modo, es un trabajo sucio pero alguien tiene que hacerlo.No matter, it's a dirty job but somebody has to do it.

#### Hyponyms

* infinitivo
* modo imperativo, imperativo
* modo indicativo
* modo subjuntivo, subjuntivo
* modo condicional
* optativo

#### Derived terms

* a modo de
* de algún modo
* de cualquier modo
* de igual modo
* de modo que
* de ningún modo
* de otro modo
* de todos modos
* de un modo u otro
* del mismo modo
* dicho de otro modo
* en cierto modo
* escala del modo
* modismo
* modo avión
* modo condicional
* modo de acción
* modo de adquirir
* modo de articulación
* modo de producción
* modo imperativo
* modo indicativo
* modo subjuntivo
* modoso
* ni modo

#### Related terms

* moderno

### Further reading

* “modo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10