Translation
model
Word origin
From the international family of French modele and Italian modello, from a Vulgar Latin diminutive of Latin modulus, itself a diminutive of modus ('measure'). A model began as a small measured pattern to build from, and English model and mould grew from the same root.
- Origin
- Latin, via French modele and Italian modello
- Root
- modulus
- English cognates
- model, mould, mode
Examples
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The boy made a small model of a ship.
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Her mother was a model for her for many years.
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He used the old bridge as a model for the new one.
The adjective modela means exemplary, worth copying: modela lernanto, a model pupil. The person who poses for a painter is also a , exactly as in English.
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