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Learned borrowing from Latin modus (“measure, manner, mood”). Doublet of mode.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈməʊdəs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmoʊdəs/

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• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈməʉdəs/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈmɐʉdəs/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈmodəs/
• (Wales, without the toe–tow merger) IPA^(key): /ˈmoːdəs/
• Rhymes: -əʊdəs
• Hyphenation: mo‧dus

modus (plural modi) (law)

1. (obsolete) The arrangement of, or mode of expressing, the terms of a contract or conveyance.
2. 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. 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

   • 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.

   • 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.

   • 1917, The English Reports: Exchequer, page 789:

     That there is and from time immemorial has been within that part of the parish called Mablethorpe St. Mary's a laudable custom that, if any outdweller take ancient pasture ground, he shall pay a modus of 4d. an acre, and so in proportion, on the 1st of August, in lieu of all manner of tithe; and that if any of the ancient pasture be once ploughed up or meadowed, it shall, when restored to pasture again, pay 4d. the acre in the hands of such outdweller.

• Odums, domus, doums, odums

Borrowed from English modus operandi, from Latin modus operandī.

• Hyphenation: mo‧dus
• IPA^(key): /ˈmodus/ [ˈmoː.d̪os̪]

módus (Badlit spelling ᜋᜓᜇᜓᜐ᜔)

1. ellipsis of modus operandi

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:modus.

• dusmo

• IPA^(key): [ˈmodus]

modus m inan

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

Borrowed from Latin modus. Doublet of mode.

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modus m (plural modussen or modi, diminutive modusje n)

1. mode
2. (grammar) mood

   Synonym: wijs

From Latin modus.

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

modus

1. (grammar) mood

• “modus”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

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

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

modus (plural modus-modus)

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

• mod (Standard Malay)

• “modus”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From Proto-Italic *modos, from Proto-Indo-European *mod-ós (“measure”), from *med- (“to measure”);^[1] compare especially Ancient Greek μήδεᾰ (mḗdeă, “counsels, plans”), Old Armenian միտ (mit, “thought”).^[2] 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.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmɔ.dʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɔː.dus]

modus m (genitive modī); second declension

1. measure
2. bound, limit, end

   Synonyms: līmes, fīnis, cacūmen

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.98:

     “Sed quis erit modus, aut quō nunc certāmine tantō?”

     “But what will be the end [of it], or to where [do we go] now with a rivalry so great?”
     (Juno is speaking to Venus.)

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
5. (poetry) rhythm, meter

   māteriā conveniente modīs ― with the material being fitting for the meters (Ovidius Naso, Amores, I, 1)

Second-declension noun.

• “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, 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^[2], 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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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• domus

From Latin modus.

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

1. mode
2. (grammar) mood

• dvalemodus

• “modus” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin modus.

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

1. mode
2. (grammar) mood

• dvalemodus

• “modus” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Ellipsis of English modus operandi, from New Latin modus operandī.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈmodus/ [ˈmoː.d̪ʊs]
• Rhymes: -odus
• Syllabification: mo‧dus

modus (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜇᜓᜐ᜔) (law enforcement)

1. modus operandi