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The on-line Diccionario Etimológico says modelo is from the Italian diminutive from the Latin modus, which my Collins Gem says is masculine, so no help there.
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In Australia on a cattle property, we would say a "beast", which can also be used in the plural instead of "cattle" eg Is this beast for sale? and Are all these beasts for sale?
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Modus is masculine? In Italian there is modella feminine and modello masculine. In Spanish not this differentiation?
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Modus is masculine?
Yes. It's a second declension masculine noun. It means 'measure', and also, 'manner, way'.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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In Australia on a cattle property, we would say a "beast", which can also be used in the plural instead of "cattle" eg Is this beast for sale? and Are all these beasts for sale? I've heard that here in the Great Plains as well. Welcome, by the way.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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Apropos the 'beasts', if I could I would buy them all and call them cows. Cattle it has always been and referring to cows only.
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Alan,
I'm not suede by your eloquence.
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