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Proto-Indo-European *med-

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

English model

From Middle French modelle, from Old Italian modello, from Vulgar Latin *modellus, diminutive form of modulus (“measure, standard”), diminutive of modus (“measure”); see mode, and compare module, modulus, mould, mold.

model (plural models)

  1. A person who serves as a human template for artwork or fashion.
    Leonardo da Vinci chose a 15th century criminal as a model for Judas in his painting The Last Supper.
    The supersize model displayed the latest summer shorts fashion, tactfully representing similarly overweight teenagers.
  2. A person, usually attractive, who is hired to show items or goods to the public, such as items that are given away as prizes on a TV game show.
  3. A representation of a physical object.
    The boy played with a model of a World War II fighter plane.
    The biology teacher passed a large plastic model of the atomic structure of DNA around the classroom.
  4. A simulation used to analyze the workings of a real world system or event.
    machine learning model
    The computer weather model did not correctly predict the path of the hurricane.
    • 2007 November 1, Jeff Goodell, quoting James Lovelock, “James Lovelock, the Prophet”, in Rolling Stone‎[1]:
      The trouble is, all those well-intentioned scientists who are arguing that we’re not in any imminent danger are basing their arguments on computer models. I’m basing mine on what’s actually happening.
    • 2013 June 29, Leo Montada, “Coping with Life Stress”, in Herman Steensma, Riël Vermunt, editors, Social Justice in Human Relations Volume 2: Societal and Psychological Consequences of Justice and Injustice‎[2], Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 26:
      The fourth model is called the enlightment model: Actors are seen to be responsible for problems but unable or unwilling to provide solutions. They are believed to need discipline provided by authoritative guidance. The Alcoholic Anonymous[_sic_] groups are considered prototypical for this model.
  5. A style, type, or design.
    Coordinate terms: make, marque
    we service all makes and models
    He decided to buy the turbo engine model of the sports car.
    This year’s model features four doors instead of two.
    Q: What make and model of car do you drive? A: It’s a Buick LaCrosse.
  6. The structural design of a complex system.
    The team developed a sound business model.
  7. A successful example to be copied, with or without modifications.
    Coordinate term: (person) mentor
    Near-synonym: (person) role model
    He was a model of eloquence and virtue.
    British parliamentary democracy was seen as a model for other countries to follow.
    • 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 714:
      Above all, the 48-page timetables of the new service, which have been distributed free at every station in the scheme, are a model to the rest of B.R. For the first time on British Railways, so far as we are aware, a substantial timetable has been produced, not only without a single footnote but also devoid of all wearisome asterisks, stars, letter suffixes and other hieroglyphics.
    • 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:
      Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. […] Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
  8. (logic) An interpretation function which assigns a truth value to each atomic proposition.
  9. (logic) An interpretation which makes a set of sentences true, in which case that interpretation is called a model of that set.
  10. (biology, medicine) An organism or species that is used to study an aspect of physiology or pathophysiology or a particular disease; often, a nonhuman one used to approximate processes in humans.
    Synonym: model organism
    They studied fasting and glycemia in a mouse model.
    They studied Mendelian inheritance in a fruit fly model.
    They studied plasmid transfer in a mycobacterial model.
  11. Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.
  1. (software architecture) In software applications using the model-view-controller design pattern, the part or parts of the application that manage the data.

person

miniature

simplified representation

style

structural design

praiseworthy example

model (not comparable)

  1. Worthy of being a model; exemplary.
    Synonym: ideal
    • 1898, John Thorburn, The St. Andrew's Society of Ottawa: 1846-1897 : sketch, page 40:
      [...] from the land of your origin, because you demand the claims of those who believe it more model than yours, [...]
    • 1932, Nora Fugger, translated by James Austin Galaston, The Glory of the Habsburgs: the Memoirs of Princess Fugger, page 35:
      Methods of game-preservation in their extensive and well-stocked hunting-grounds were as model as the huntsmanlike management of the hunts.
    • 1934, Charles Ryle Fay, Imperial economy and its place in the formation of economic doctrine, 1600-1932, page 143:
      [...] and we press with special severity on one small country whose agriculture is as model as is her way of rural life.
    • 1956, Stephen Rynne, All Ireland, page 54:
      True, it is an untidy county; the farmhouses are much more model than the farms (when we reach Antrim we shall find that the farms are more model than the farmhouses).
    • 1961, Blackwood's Magazine, volume 289, page 525:
      At our approach the animals made so much noise that the owners of the hut peered round the door to see what was the matter; outwardly rather less model than the farm, there appeared two ancient Basques, emblematically black-bereted, gnarled [...]
    • 1968, American County Government, volume 33, page 19:
      But not all the exchanges were as model as the sergeant. Some of the exchangees showed a rigidity and reluctance to adapt.
    • 1999, Michael D. Williams, Acquisition for the 21st century: the F-22 Development Program, page 113:
      It is as model as you can get.
    • 2002, Uma Anand Segal, A framework for immigration: Asians in the United States, page 308:
      While Asians have been perceived as the model minority, it is increasingly clear that some Asian groups are more model than are others, and even within these model groups, a division exists [...]
    • 2010, Eleanor Coppola, Notes on a Life, page 140:
      All were neat and well kept which added to the sense that they were more model than real.

worthy of being a model

Translations to be checked

model (third-person singular simple present models, present participle (US) modeling or (UK) modelling, simple past and past participle (US) modeled or (UK) modelled)

  1. (transitive) To display an item on one's body for others to see the potential effect on their own bodies, especially in regard to wearing clothing while performing the role of a fashion model.
    She modelled the shoes for her friends to appreciate.
  2. (transitive) To devise a model of (some original), especially to better understand or forecast the original.
    Synonym: pattern
    They modelled weather patterns using a computer.
    • 2023 June 28, Mel Holley, “A true transport trailblazer?”, in RAIL, number 986, page 34:
      What passenger growth might be achieved by this can be modelled, but experience shows that in the post-COVID environment, accurate modelling is exceptionally difficult.
  3. (transitive) To make a miniature model of.
    He takes great pride in his skill at modeling airplanes.
  4. (transitive) To create from a substance such as clay.
    The sculptor modelled the clay into the form of a dolphin.
  5. (intransitive) To make a model or models.
  6. (intransitive) To work as a model in art or fashion.
    The actress used to model before being discovered by Hollywood.

make a miniature model — see also assemble

be a model

Ultimately from Old Italian modello, from Vulgar Latin *modellus, diminutive form of modulus (“measure, standard”).

model m (plural modele, definite modeli, definite plural modelet)

  1. pattern
  2. example
    Synonyms: shembull, mostër

model m (plural models)

  1. model

model m or f by sense (plural models)

  1. model (person)

Borrowed from English model, from Middle French modelle, from Old Italian modello, from Vulgar Latin *modellus, diminutive form of Latin modulus (“measure, standard”), diminutive of modus (“measure”).

model

  1. fashion model
  2. model, poser; someone who poses for a photograph or painting
  3. framework
  4. example

model

  1. to model
  2. to become or work as a fashion model
  3. to pose

From the Cebuano phrase mo-deliver ug lunggon (“someone who delivers coffins”).

model

  1. (colloquial, humorous) a funeral home worker; a funeral director or funeral attendant See usage notes.

From French modèle (“model”).

model

  1. model

From German Modell.

model m inan

  1. (art) model (artistic template)
  2. model (reduced-scale template, e.g. scale model)
  3. model (of a car, aircraft, etc.)
    Máte jiný model? ― Do you have another model?
  4. (metallurgy) model, mold
  5. (mathematics) (formal) model

model m anim (female equivalent modelka)

  1. male model (person who models clothing, or an artist's model)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

model f

  1. genitive plural of modla

Borrowed from Middle French modelle, from Old Italian modello, from Vulgar Latin *modellus, diminutive form of modulus. For the neuter gender, compare German Modell.

model n (plural modellen, diminutive modelletje n)

  1. model (type, design)
  2. model (someone or something serving as an artistic subject)
  3. model (simplified representation)
  4. model (miniature)
  5. model (prototype)
  6. shape, the proper arrangement of something

Borrowed from Dutch model. Doublet of mode, modern, modul, and modus.

modèl (plural **model-model)

  1. model (a person who serves as a human template for artwork or fashion)
    Synonym: peragawan
  2. model (all senses)

Borrowed from Musi.

modèl (plural **model-model)

  1. (cooking) a type of pempek filled with tofu and eaten with clear sauce like soup

Borrowed from French modèle[1]

model m (Hebrew spelling מודיל)[1]

  1. model (template)
    • 1994, Eli Shaul, Folklor de los judios de Turkiya‎[4], Isis, →ISBN, page 152:
      En analizando objektivamente la kestion, vemos ke en siguidad de las polimikas entre estos dos jurnalistas, Sabetay Leon, fue atakado juntos sus amigos de su partido komo "vendido" i "dalkavuk", loke no es verdad, visto ke todos los konosemos ke el es un model de "dezenteresamiento".
      In objectively analysing the question, we see that after the polemics between the journalists, Sabetay Leon was attacked along with his friends of his party as ‘a sellout’ and ‘a bootlicker’, which is untrue, seeing everything that we know of them which is a model of ‘indifference.’
    • 2000, Aki Yerushalayim‎[5], numbers 62–64, page 94:
      La lengua de kultura ke el admirava i ke konosia su literatura era el fransez, i esta es la lengua ke el eskojo komo model para el djudeo espanyol kulto.
      The language that he admired and whose literature that he knew was French, and this is the language that he chose as a model for educated Judezmo.
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “model”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola [Treasury of the Judeo-Spanish Language] (in Ladino, Hebrew, and English), Instituto Maale Adumim

Borrowed from Dutch model or English model, from French modéle, from Italian modello, from Lithuanian modulus (“measurement”).[1]

model (Jawi spelling موديل, plural **model-model or **model2)

  1. Model:
    1. Fashion, type, way or design of a product that has been released.
    2. An imitative product that is identical in form to the original but smaller.
    3. Someone who showcases clothes among other things.
      Synonyms: peragawan m, peragawati f
    4. Someone to follow and be made as a role model.
  1. ^ “model”, in Kamus Etimologi Bahasa Melayu Dewan [The Institute Etymological Dictionary of the Malay Language] (in Malay), 1st edition, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2024, →ISBN, page 511

Borrowed from Italian modello.[1] First attested in 1561.[2] Compare Silesian model. Doublet of modła and moduł.

model m inan (diminutive modelik, related adjective modelowy)

  1. model (a representation of a physical object)
  2. model (the structural design of a complex system)
    Synonyms: paradygmat, szablon, wzorzec, wzór
  3. model (a style, type, or design)
    Synonym: typ
  4. model (way of organizing something)
  5. model (object used to prepare casting molds)
  6. model (a successful example to be copied, with or without modifications)
  7. model (trial copy of a series of technical products)
  8. model (any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact)

model m pers (female equivalent modelka)

  1. model (person who serves as a subject for artwork)
  2. (colloquial) funny guy (person who makes one laugh or shocks with their behavior)
    Synonyms: agregat, aparat, numer, numerant
  1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “model”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “model”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]

Borrowed from French modèle or Italian modello.

model n (plural modele)

  1. a template

Borrowed from German Modell or French modèle, from Italian modello, from Latin modellus.

mòdel m inan (Cyrillic spelling мо̀дел)

  1. model (clarification of this definition is needed)

Borrowed from Czech model.[1]

model m inan (related adjective modelowy)

  1. model
  1. ^ Aleksandra Wencel (2023), “model”, in Dykcjůnôrz ślų̊sko-polski, page 409

Borrowed from French modèle.

model (definite accusative modeli, plural modeller)

  1. model (person who serves as a human template for artwork; person who is hired to show fashion items to the public)
    Synonym: manken
  2. model (miniature; simplified representation; prototype)
    Synonym: örnek
  3. model (structural design)
    Synonym: biçim
  4. model (praiseworthy example)
    Synonym: rol modeli
  5. (of vehicles) production year
    2022 model bir Ford Focus ― A 2022 Ford Focus

From English model, from Middle French modelle, from Old Italian modello.

model m or f (plural modelau)

  1. model

Mutated forms of model

radical soft nasal aspirate
model fodel unchanged unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.