forme

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

English

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• Frome, e-form, eForm, eform, feorm, frome

Asturian

Verb

forme

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

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔrmə/, [ˈfɒːmə]

Etymology 1

See form (“shape, form”).

Noun

forme c

1. indefinite plural of form

Etymology 2

From form (“shape, form”).

Verb

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

Etymology

(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

• IPA^(key): /fɔʁm/

• Audio:

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Noun

forme f (plural formes)

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

Derived terms

• en bonne et due forme
• en forme
• forme canonique
• forme fruste
• mettre les formes
• péter la forme
• plate-forme
• pour la forme
• prendre forme
• sans autre forme de procès
• vice de forme
• y mettre les formes

Related terms

• difforme
• formel
• former
• formule
  • formulaire
• informe

Descendants

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

Verb

forme

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

Further reading

• “forme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

German

Verb

forme

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

Italian

Noun

forme f pl

1. plural of forma

Anagrams

• Fermo, fermo, fermò, fremo

Latin

Adjective

forme

1. vocative masculine singular of formus