English

Modie

From mode + -ie.

Formed from mode + -ie

Proto-Indo-European *med- ‘to measure’

Proto-Indo-European *mod-ós ‘measure’

Proto-Italic *modos

Latin modus ‘measure’

Old French mode

English mode

Today it means

noun A fan of the English electronic band Depeche Mode.

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