The story
- Latin · derived frommodulus“a small measure, a measure, mode, meter”
- French · borrowed frommodule
- English todaymodule
Borrowed from French module, from Latin modulus (“a small measure, a measure, mode, meter”), diminutive of modus (“measure”) (whence mode). Doublet of modulus and mold.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.