forme

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See also: -forme, formé, formě, and formę

English

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Noun

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forme (plural formes)

  1. Obsolete form of form.
    • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: [], 2nd edition, London: [] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, [], →OCLC:
      And first, although there were more things in nature then words which did expresse them, yet even in these mute and silent discourses, to expresse complexed significations, they took a liberty to compound and piece together creatures of allowable formes unto mixtures inexistent []
  2. (printing) Alternative form of form (type etc. secured in a chase)
    • 1978, David A. Bloestein, Introduction, John Marston, David A. Bloestein (editor), Parasitaster: Or, The Fawn, page 47,
      Both these formes, with running titles intact, were retained to print sheet D of Q2.
    • 1994, Jay L. Halio, Introduction, Jay L. Halio (editor), William Shakespeare, The First Quarto of King Lear, page 21,
      Q2 was printed in twenty-two formes.
    • 2011, Eugene Giddens, How to Read a Shakespearean Play Text, page 41:
      In casting off, the printing house would judge the length of a manuscript to determine both how many sheets would be needed, and what the divisions were between one forme and another. (A forme is one side of a sheet: four quarto pages or two folio pages.) Because formes do not have many consecutive pages, estimates would be further broken down by page. If a quarto forme includes a putative page one, for instance, that side of the sheet would also include pages four, five, and eight.

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Asturian

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Verb

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forme

  1. first-person singular present subjunctive of formar
  2. third-person singular present subjunctive of formar

Danish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fɔrmə/, [ˈfɒːmə]

Etymology 1

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See form (shape, form).

Noun

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forme c

  1. indefinite plural of form

Etymology 2

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From form (shape, form).

Verb

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forme (imperative form, infinitive at forme, present tense former, past tense formede, perfect tense er/har formet)

  1. shape
  2. clay
  3. mould
  4. form, frame

French

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Etymology

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(11th c.) From Middle French forme, from Old French forme, from Latin fōrma. Possibly cognate with Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ). Cognate with English form via Old French.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fɔʁm/
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Noun

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forme f (plural formes)

  1. shape (geometrical representation)
  2. shape (physical appearance)
  3. form

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Russian: фо́рма (fórma) (see there for further descendants)
  • Turkish: form

Verb

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forme

  1. inflection of former:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    3. second-person singular present imperative

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German

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Verb

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forme

  1. inflection of formen:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

Italian

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Noun

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forme f pl

  1. plural of forma

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Latin

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Adjective

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forme

  1. vocative masculine singular of formus

Norman

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Etymology

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From Old French forme, borrowed from Latin forma.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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forme f (plural formes)

  1. (Jersey) form

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Old Norse forma.

Verb

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forme (imperative form, present tense former, passive formes, simple past and past participle forma or formet, present participle formende)

  1. to form
  2. to shape

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Norse forma.

Verb

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forme (present tense formar, past tense forma, past participle forma, passive infinitive formast, present participle formande, imperative forme/form)

  1. to form
  2. to shape

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Old English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfor.me/, [ˈforˠ.me]

Adjective

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forme

  1. inflection of forma:
    1. nominative feminine/neuter singular
    2. accusative neuter singular

Portuguese

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Verb

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forme

  1. inflection of formar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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forme f pl

  1. plural of formă

Spanish

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Verb

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forme

  1. inflection of formar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative