modicus

From modus (“(due) measure”) +‎ -icus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.di.kus/, [ˈmɔd̪ɪkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.di.kus/, [ˈmɔːd̪ikus]

modicus (feminine modica, neuter modicum); first/second-declension adjective

1. moderate

   Synonym: moderātus

2. temperate, restrained
3. reasonable
4. humble, poor

   Synonyms: dēmissus, ignōbilis, humilis, abiectus

5. mean, scanty, small

   Synonyms: parcus, paucus, perpaucus

   Antonym: nimius

First/second-declension adjective.

• → Catalan: mòdic
• → English: modicum
• → French: modique
• → Italian: modico
• → Portuguese: módico
• → Romanian: modic
• → Spanish: módico

• “modicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “modicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• modicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to bear a thing with resignation, composure: humane, modice, moderate, sapienter, constanter ferre aliquid
    
  • to be moderate in all things, commit no excess: omnia modice agere
    
  • with moderation and judgment: modice ac sapienter