modernus Latin · revision 4606

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=papal letters of 492–496|origins=la modo}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [mɔˈdɛr.nʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [moˈdɛr.nus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''modernus''' (feminine moderna, neuter modernum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|modo|-rnus|t1=just now]], formed after [[hodiernus]] “of today” from [[hodie|alt=hodiē]].^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Etymonline traces [[m|la|modo]] to the ablative of [[modus]] “measure”.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler records it first in papal letters of 492–496 AD.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a post-classical word for new, recent, of the present time, opposed to [[antiquus]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Cassiodorus praises a man as the most careful imitator of the ancients and the noblest founder of modern things, and the Pseudo-Priscian work on accents uses it too.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Bede speaks of modern versifiers.^(Georges 1913)

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+ In medieval Latin it meant modern, recent, present-day, new.^(Niermeyer 1976) British writers used it of current holders of an office and of the present as distinguished from the past.^(DMLBS) [[en|modern]] is recorded around 1500.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 492–496 AD – Papal letters use it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 485–c. 580 AD – Cassiodorus contrasts the ancients and the moderns.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1500 – English ''modern'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # New, recent, [[m|en|modern]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Present-day; currently in office.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(DMLBS)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # In the neuter plural, things of the present.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[modo]]

+ * [[hodiernus]]

+ * [[en|modern]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}