modicum.
A modest, small, or trifling amount.
Meaning & usage
A modest, small, or trifling amount.
Unable to garner even a modicum of support for his plan, he conceded to follow the others.
The constitutional requirement necessitates independent creation plus a modicum of creativity.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English modicum, from Latin modicum (“a little, a small amount”), a noun use of the neuter form of modicus (“moderate; restrained, temperate; reasonable”) + -cum (suffix forming neuter nouns). Modicus is derived from modus (“a measure; a bound, limit”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”)) + -icus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). The plural form modica is derived from Latin modica.
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