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modal (adj.)
[modal 词源字典]
1560s, term in logic, from Middle French
modal
and directly from Medieval Latin
modalis
"of or pertaining to a mode," from Latin
modus
"measure, manner, mode" (see
mode
(n.1)). Musical sense is from 1590s.
[modal etymology, modal origin, 英语词源]