modestus

== Latin == === Etymology === From the same root as modus m (“measure, manner”), but not directly derived from this noun, which declines in Latin as a masculine o-stem. The form modestus is made up of components derived from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”) + *-os (noun-forming suffix) + *-tós (adjective-forming suffix) (Classical Latin -tus); this implies the existence at some point of a neuter s-stem noun (also indirectly attested by the -er- found in moderor). Compare scelestus, derived from the s-stem noun scelus n (or an ancestral form of it). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [mɔˈdɛs.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [moˈdɛs.tus] === Adjective === modestus (feminine modesta, neuter modestum, comparative modestior, superlative modestissimus, adverb modestē); first/second-declension adjective moderate, calm, restrained, mild modest, reserved, discreet ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== immodestus modestē modestia ==== Related terms ==== moderō moderor modus Modestus ==== Descendants ==== === References === “modestus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “modestus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “modestus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “modestus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “modestus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray