modern

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 350 words | Copyright

modern † now existing; pert. to or characteristic of present or recent times; † ordinary XVI. — (O)F. moderne or late L. modernus, f. L. modo just now.
Hence modernist † person of modern times XVI; supporter of modern ways XVIII; (theol.) XX. modernism XVIII. So modernity XVII. — medL. modernize XVIII. — F.

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