M / mŏdernus
adjective

mŏdernus

fem. mŏderna · neut. mŏdernum
from modo, just now; like hodiernus from hodie
modern; things; institutions of the present
modern (post-class.); as subst.: mŏderna, ōrum, n., things or institutions of the present: antiquorum diligentissimus imitator, modernorum nobilissimus institutor, Cassiod. Var. 4, 51.