modern: [16] Latin modus (source of English mode and model) meant ‘measure’. Its ablative form modō hence originally denoted ‘to the measure’, but it subsequently came to be used as an adverb meaning ‘just now’. And in postclassical times an adjective modernus was derived from it, signifying ‘of the present time’ – source, via French, of English modern. At first it was used strictly for ‘of the present moment’, but before the end of the 16th century the now familiar sense ‘of the present age’ had begun to emerge. => mode, model
modern (adj.)
c. 1500, "now existing;" 1580s, "of or pertaining to present or recent times;" from Middle French moderne (15c.) and directly from Late Latin modernus "modern" (Priscian, Cassiodorus), from Latin modo "just now, in a (certain) manner," from modo (adv.) "to the measure," ablative of modus "manner, measure" (see mode (n.1)). Extended form modern-day attested from 1909.
In Shakespeare, often with a sense of "every-day, ordinary, commonplace." Slang abbreviation mod first attested 1960. Modern art is from 1807 (by contrast to ancient); modern dance first attested 1912; first record of modern jazz is from 1954. Modern conveniences first recorded 1926.
modern (n.)
1580s, "person of the present time" (contrasted to ancient, from modern (adj.). From 1897 as "one who is up to date."
例文
1. We are in one of the most severe recessions in modern times.
私たちは現代で最も深刻な不況を経験しています。
2.In many ways，it was a very modern school for its time.
この学校は多くの点で当時非常に先進的だった。
3.This boxed collection captures 64 of the greatest modern love songs.
このボックスアルバムには、最も美しい現代の愛の歌64曲が収録されています。
4.Most modern housing estates are terrible and inevitably done on the cheap.
今の家の多くは品質が最悪で、手抜きで建てられているに違いない。
5.The telephone is one of the great tyrannies of modern life.