formaceus

Latin

Alternative forms

  • formacius

Etymology

From fōrma (“shape, mould”) +‎ -āceus (“relational adjective suffix”). Said to be current in Africa and Spain, and is continued in Spanish. Isidore cites the substantivised fōrmācium, with fōrmātum as a synonym.[1] Compare Spanish horma (“dry stone wall”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

fōrmāceus (feminine fōrmācea, neuter fōrmāceum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. (hapax legomenon) made using a form or mould, moulded
    • Pliny, Natural History 35.169.2:
      […] nōn in Āfricā Hispāniāque ē terrā parietēs, quōs appellant fōrmāceōs, quoniam in fōrmā circumdatīs duābus utrimque tabulīs inferciuntur vērius quam īnstruuntur, aevīs dūrant […] ?
      […] don't they last for ages, the earthen walls in Africa and Spain that they call moulded because they're stuffed in a mould, with two boards on either side, rather than constructed […] ?

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative fōrmāceus fōrmācea fōrmāceum fōrmāceī fōrmāceae fōrmācea
genitive fōrmāceī fōrmāceae fōrmāceī fōrmāceōrum fōrmāceārum fōrmāceōrum
dative fōrmāceō fōrmāceae fōrmāceō fōrmāceīs
accusative fōrmāceum fōrmāceam fōrmāceum fōrmāceōs fōrmāceās fōrmācea
ablative fōrmāceō fōrmāceā fōrmāceō fōrmāceīs
vocative fōrmācee fōrmācea fōrmāceum fōrmāceī fōrmāceae fōrmācea

Descendants

  • Spanish: hormazo, hormaza

References

  • “formaceus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • formaceus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ The Etymologies or The Origins, XV.9.5
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