Where does “modern” come from?

modern (Dutch) comes from Middle French moderne, from Latin modernus, from Latin -rnus — suffix forming adjectives.

modern (Dutch): modern; modernist

Definitions

  1. modern; modernist

Ancestry of “modern”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchmodernemodern; current; contemporary
2Latinmodernusmodern
3Latin-rnussuffix forming adjectives

Words derived from “modern”

Every word from Latin -rnus →
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