Latin
Pronunciation
Conjunction
modo ut [with subjunctive]
- provided (that), on the condition that
- Synonyms: dummodo, dumtaxat
62 BCE – 43 BCE,
Cicero,
Epistulae ad Familiares XIV.14
:
- Modo ut haec nobis loca tenere liceat, bellissime vel mecum vel in nostris praediis esse poteritis.
- Provided that we can hold this area, you can stay very nicely with me or at my properties in the country.
References
- “modo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “modo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers