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modo just now
modo is a Latin Adverb that primarily means just now.
Definitions for modo
Wheelock's Latin
Adverb
- 1
now, just now, only; modo...modo, at one time...at another
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Adverb
- 1
No more than, just, only. (b) (in commands or requests). (c) (in wishes). (d) modo non, all but, very nearly.
- 2
non ~..sed etiam (and sim.), Not only.. but also; (in neg. cls. non ~is sts. used for non ~non). (b) non ~, not to speak of, let alone.
Sentences with modo
Latin to English
Pax est tranquilla libertas, servitus postremum malorum omnium non modo bello, sed morte etiam repellendum.Compare Peace is freedom in tranquility, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.
Da modo lucra mihi, da facto gaudia lucro; et fac ut emptori verba dedisse iuvet.Compare Only grant me profits, grant me the joy of profit made, and see to it that I enjoy cheating the buyer!
Est enim non modo liberale paulum non numquam de suo iure decedere, sed interdum etiam fructuosum.Compare For it is not only generous occasionally to share a little of one's own rightful claims, but it is sometimes even advantageous.
Nullus interitus est rei publicae naturalis ut hominis, in quo mors non modo necessaria est, verum etiam optanda persaepe.Compare Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
O res non modo video foedus, sed etiam audio!Compare O fact shameful not only to be seen, but even to be heard of.
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 481.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1123.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 120.
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Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "modo (adv.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 24, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/modo.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 481.on page 481
