Translation
moderate
Word origin
From Latin moderatus, the past participle of moderari, to keep within measure, built on modus, a measure. The same modus gives mode, model, modern and modest.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- moderari
- English cognates
- moderate, modest, mode, modify
Examples
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He has moderate ideas about the matter.
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The prices in that shop are moderate.
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She eats only a moderate amount of meat.
The false seam. Esperanto really does have a suffix -er-. It means one fragment of a mass: is sand and a o is a single grain of it, is money and a o is a coin. So a learner who has met -er- looks at -er-a and reasonably expects a word about small pieces.
It is not there. Moder- is one Latin root, borrowed whole, and the -a on the end is the only thing you can peel off. There is no Esperanto root - for the supposed -er- to attach to.
What it means in use. is the middle of a range and it is not a criticism. Moderate prices are reasonable ones, a moderate opinion is a temperate rather than a feeble one, and a moderate amount is enough without being too much. Its opposite is , rank 1370. Its near neighbours are , rank 698, which is about judgement, and , rank 1312, which is about gentleness. is about quantity and degree: how much, not how wisely or how kindly.
The verb i, to moderate something, and the noun o, moderation, both build regularly off it.
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