See modus in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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],
"english": "miserably (literally: in a miserable manner)",
"text": "miserandum in modum",
"translation": "miserably (literally: in a miserable manner)",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
12,
17
]
],
"english": "in a hostile manner",
"text": "hostilem in modum",
"translation": "in a hostile manner",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "in what manner they pleased",
"ref": "Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico I, 36",
"text": "quem ad modum vellent",
"translation": "in what manner they pleased"
},
{
"english": "A pearl in the manner of a cameo.",
"roman": "Una Perla ad modum camahuti.",
"text": "1272, an unknown source in The Natural History of Precious Stones and of the Precious Metals (1867), viii, page 269",
"translation": "A pearl in the manner of a cameo.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"manner (of doing or being arranged), way (of doing or being arranged), method"
],
"links": [
[
"manner",
"manner"
],
[
"way",
"way"
],
[
"method",
"method"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "ratiō"
},
{
"word": "disciplīna"
}
],
"tags": [
"declension-2",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"la:Grammar"
],
"glosses": [
"mood, mode"
],
"links": [
[
"grammar",
"grammar"
],
[
"mood",
"mood"
],
[
"mode",
"mode"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(grammar) mood, mode"
],
"tags": [
"declension-2",
"masculine"
],
"topics": [
"grammar",
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with usage examples",
"la:Poetry"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
20,
25
]
],
"english": "with the material being fitting for the meters",
"text": "māteriā conveniente modīs",
"translation": "with the material being fitting for the meters",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"rhythm, meter"
],
"links": [
[
"poetry",
"poetry"
],
[
"rhythm",
"rhythm"
],
[
"meter",
"meter"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(poetry) rhythm, meter"
],
"tags": [
"declension-2",
"masculine"
],
"topics": [
"communications",
"journalism",
"literature",
"media",
"poetry",
"publishing",
"writing"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈmɔ.dʊs]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈmɔː.dus]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "modus"
}
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