modal

modal · adjective, noun¹

1. Latin · derived frommodus“mode”
2. Medieval Latin · derived frommodālis“pertaining to a mode”
3. Middle French · borrowed frommodal
4. English todaymodal

From Middle French modal, from Medieval Latin modālis (“pertaining to a mode”), from Latin modus (“mode”). Compare to French, Spanish, and Portuguese modal and Italian modale. By surface analysis, mod(e) + -al.

modal · noun²

A genericized trademark of Lenzing AG.

Words from the same roots