Mo-Doとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈmɔ.doː], [ˈmɔ.dɔ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈmɔː.do]

副詞

modō̆

1. just, only, merely, simply

   Synonyms: tantum, sōlum

   Tunc, (ille) modo edere volēbat. ― At that time, he wanted only to eat.

   Semel modo nōn satis.

   Only one time is not enough.

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 4.25:

     Nam et nāvium figūrā et rēmōrum mōtū et inūsitātō genere tormentōrum permōtī barbarī cōnstitērunt āc paulum modo pedem rettulērunt.

     Because the appearance of the ships, the motion of the oars, and the unusual type of artillery had startled the barbarians, they halted and stepped back just a little.
     (Idiomatic phrase: the adverb modo + paulum, an adverbial accusative of extent, indicates the small distance of retreat.)

2. recently, just now

   Latrōcinium modo factum est. ― A robbery has just now taken place.

3. presently
4. (modo … modo) now … now; now … and then; sometimes … sometimes; at one time … at another
   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca Minor, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 1.2.4:

     “Sed modo,” inquis, “hunc librum ēvolvere volō, modo illum.”

     “But now,” you say, “I want to unroll this book, then that [one].”
     (In other words, opening one scroll after another, never reading a single author in-depth.)

派生語

派生した語

名詞

modō m

1. dative/ablative singular of modus

後置詞

modō (+ ablative)

1. the way, as, the manner

派生語

• quōmodo
• quōmodocumque
• quōmodolibet

参考

• grosso modo

参照

• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “mŏdo”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 412

Further reading

• “modo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “modo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "modo", 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)
• “modo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (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)