mod

See also: Mod, MOD, MoD, mód, mōd, möd, and mod.

English

Etymology 1

Abbreviations.

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /mɑd/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mɒd/
Audio (AU) (file)
Rhymes: -ɒd
Homophone: Maud (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Noun

mod (countable and uncountable, plural mods)

(uncountable) An unconventionally modern style of fashionable dress originating in England in the 1960s, characterized by ankle-length black trenchcoats and sunglasses.
(UK) A 1960s British person who dressed in such a style and was interested in modernism and the modern music of the time; the opposite of a rocker.
(informal) Clipping of modification.
(video games) An end user-created package containing modifications to the look or behaviour of a video game.
(Internet) A moderator, for example on a discussion forum.
(computing, informal) A module (file containing a tracker music sequence).
- 1992, "Jordan K. Hubbard", How to convert Amiga mods to Arch? (on Internet newsgroup comp.sys.acorn)
  I'd like to convert some of the arch^[sic] mods back into Amiga mods since I don't have the original Amiga versions.
- 2003, Rene T. A. Lysloff, Leslie C. Gay, Jr., Music and Technoculture (page 38)
  These mods, while usually having the distinctive bleep and beep quality of transistor-generated tones, are often astonishingly creative and rich in expressive nuances.
(rock climbing) A moderately difficult route.
(in the plural, Oxford University, informal) Moderations: university examinations generally taken in the first year.
(mathematics, programming) Abbreviation of modulus.
Synonyms: %, modulus
(statistics)Abbreviation of mode.

Usage notes

In video gaming, mods are created by end users, whereas such content by the game creators would be called an expansion pack.

Translations

video games: an end user-created package containing modifications for a video game

German: Mod (de) m or f
Polish: mod (pl) m
Portuguese: modificação (pt) f, modificador (pt) m, mod m
Spanish: modificación (es) f

Verb

mod (third-person singular simple present mods, present participle modding, simple past and past participle modded)

(transitive, informal) To modify (an object) from its original condition, typically for the purposes of individualizing and/or enhancing the performance of the object.
His friends were particularly impressed with the way he modded his Ruckus.
Synonyms: trick, trick out
(video games) To install or create a mod.
Learning Java is what got me into modding Minecraft.
(transitive, Internet, informal) To moderate; to silence or punish (a rule-breaking user) on a forum, especially when done by a moderator.
Don't break the rules or you'll be modded.
I used to mod that forum.

Derived terms

demod
moddable
modder

Adjective

mod (not comparable)

Abbreviation of moderate.

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

mod (plural mods)

A festival of Scottish Gaelic song, arts and culture, akin to the Welsh eisteddfod.

Anagrams

-dom, DOM, Dom, Dom., ODM, dom, dom.

Danish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈmoˀð], [ˈmoðˀ]
Rhymes: -oð

Etymology 1

From Old Norse móðr, from Proto-Germanic *mōdaz, cognate with English mood, German Mut.

Noun

mod n (singular definite modet, not used in plural form)

courage
mood

Synonyms

(formal) courage, kurage c
tapperhed c

Etymology 2

From Old Norse í mót, i.e. the preposition í (“in”) + the noun mót (“meeting”) (compare i møde), from Proto-Germanic *mōtą, cognate with English moot.

Preposition

mod or imod

against
versus
towards
into
from

Usage notes

The two forms, mod and imod, are interchangeable. In the contemporary language, the shorter form is used ca. 10 times as much as the longer one. As an adverb, only the longer form is used.

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sicilian modu and/or Italian modo, from Latin modus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mɔːt/

Noun

mod m (plural modi or modijiet)

way, manner
Synonyms: għamla, manjiera

Derived terms

bil-mod

Middle English

Noun

mod

Alternative form of mode (“intellect, mood, will, courage, nature”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

mod n (definite singular modet, uncountable)

(pre-2012) alternative form of mot

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mē-, *mō-. Cognate with Old High German muot (German Mut), Old Saxon mōd, Old Dutch muot (Dutch (ge)moed), Old Norse móðr (“anger, grief”) (Swedish mod), Gothic 𐌼𐍉𐌸𐍃 (mōþs, “anger, emotion”). The Proto-Indo-European root was also the source of Ancient Greek μῶθαι (môthai) and Latin mōs.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /moːd/

Noun

mōd n

mind
- Adrian and Ritheus
  Mannes mōd biþ on þām hēafde and gǣþ ūt þurh þone mūþ.
  A person's mind is in the head and goes out through the mouth.
heart, spirit
state of mind, mood
(in poetry and compounds) courage, pride, zeal, or anger

Declension

Declension of mod (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	mōd	mōd
accusative	mōd	mōd
genitive	mōdes	mōda
dative	mōde	mōdum

Derived terms

-mōd (“-minded”)
mōdlēas (“mindless”)
mōdsēoc (“mentally ill”)
on mōd berinnan (of a thought or idea, “to occur”)

Descendants

Middle English: mod, mode, mood
- English: mood
- Scots: mude, muid

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French mode.

Noun

mod n (plural moduri)

mode, fashion, style, way
(grammar) mode, mood

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

mȏd m (Cyrillic spelling мо̑д)

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Declension

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Slovene

Noun

mod

genitive dual/plural of modo

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmod/ [ˈmoð̞]
Rhymes: -od
Syllabification: mod

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English mod, from modern.

Adjective

mod (invariable)

mod (of the 1960s modern style)

Noun

mod m (uncountable)

mod (1960s modern style)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English mod, from modification.

Noun

mod m (plural mods)

mod (an end user-created package containing modifications to the look or behaviour of a video game)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse móðr, from Proto-Germanic *mōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mō-, *mē-.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /muːd/
audio (file)

Noun

mod n

courage
(in some expressions and as a component of many words) (often positive) state of mind
Han kände sig illa till mods
He felt uncomfortable (uneasy, ill at ease)

Declension

Declension of mod
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	mod	modet	—	—
Genitive	mods	modets	—	—

Derived terms

anmoda
förmoda
hjältemod
högmod
i hastigt mod
jämnmod

livsmod
mannamod
med berått mod
modfälld
modstulen
repa mod

saktmod
svårmod
ta mod till sig
till mods
tålamod
vankelmod

vemod
vredesmod
övermod
övermodig

Related terms

modig

References

mod in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
mod in Svensk ordbok (SO)
mod in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
mod in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

-dom, Dom., dom, dom-

Turkish

Noun

mod (definite accusative modu, plural modlar)

mode
(colloquial) mood

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mooto.

Noun

mod

face

Inflection

Inflection of mod (inflection type 1/ilo)
nominative sing.	mod
genitive sing.	modon
partitive sing.	modod
partitive plur.	modoid
	singular	plural
nominative	mod	modod
accusative	modon	modod
genitive	modon	modoiden
partitive	modod	modoid
essive-instructive	modon	modoin
translative	modoks	modoikš

inessive	modos	modoiš
elative	modospäi	modoišpäi
illative	modho modoho	modoihe

adessive	modol	modoil
ablative	modolpäi	modoilpäi
allative	modole	modoile

abessive	modota	modoita
comitative	modonke	modoidenke
prolative	mododme	modoidme

approximative I	modonno	modoidenno
approximative II	modonnoks	modoidennoks
egressive	modonnopäi	modoidennopäi

terminative I	modhosai modohosai	modoihesai
terminative II	modolesai	modoilesai
terminative III	modossai	—

additive I	modhopäi modohopäi	modoihepäi
additive II	modolepäi	modoilepäi

Derived terms

käbedmod
modkuva
modpolišk

References

Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “лицо”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Welsh

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /moːd/

Verb

mod

Nasal mutation of bod.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
bod	fod	mod	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

mod

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

Usage notes

Translations

Verb

Derived terms

Adjective

Etymology 2

Noun

Anagrams

Danish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Synonyms

Etymology 2

Preposition

Usage notes

Maltese

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Middle English

Noun

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

Old English

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

Romanian

Etymology

Noun

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Noun

Declension

Slovene

Noun

Spanish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Adjective

Noun

Etymology 2

Noun

Further reading

Swedish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

References

Anagrams

Turkish

Noun

Veps

Etymology

Noun

Inflection

Derived terms

References

Welsh

Pronunciation

Verb

Mutation