forme

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.

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

forme

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

• IPA^(key): /fɔrmə/, [ˈfɒːmə]

See form (“shape, form”).

forme c

1. indefinite plural of form

From form (“shape, form”).

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

From Middle French forme, from Old French forme, from Latin fōrma.

• IPA^(key): /fɔʁm/

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forme f (plural formes)

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

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

forme

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

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

forme

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

forme f pl

1. plural of forma

• Fermo, fermo, fermò, fremo

forme

1. vocative masculine singular of formus

Borrowed from Old French forme, fourme, from Latin fōrma, of unclear origin.^[1]

Pronunciations with /u/, /uː/ respectively reflect differing adaptations of Old French, while those with /ɔ/ are influenced by Latin fōrma; for possible differentiation in pronunciation by sense, see the usage note at Modern English form.

• form, foorm, foorme, fourm, fourme, furme
• fform, fforme (Late Middle English)
• fwrme (Early Scots)

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔrm(ə)/, /ˈfurm(ə)/, /ˈfuːrm(ə)/^[2]

forme (plural formes)

1. Form; the shape or appearance of something:
   1. (art or religion) A representation, likeness or depiction.
   2. (rare) A preternatural figure; an apparition.
2. The manner, style, or means something is done in:
   1. Convention, procedure; established practice.
   2. The characteristic behaviour associated with a group.
   3. The wording or formulation of a textual passage.
   4. An educational or medical course or schedule.
3. An exemplar or model:
   1. A mould or cast; an implement for shaping.
   2. (fashion) The style or specifications of a garment.
   3. (rare, philosophy) An archetype or pattern.
4. A structure, support, or frame, especially:
   1. A bench without a back.
   2. (hunting) The den or home of a hare.
5. (law) A instruction or the document containing it.
6. (philosophy) The essential category of something (Aristotle's μορφή).

• formal
• formen
• formere

• English: form
• Middle Scots: forme, fourme, furme
  • Scots: form; furm

Inherited from Old English forma, from Proto-West Germanic *formō, *frumō, from Proto-Germanic *frumô.^[1]

• form
• forrme (Ormulum)

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔrm(ə)/

forme (plural and weak singular forme, comparative formere, superlative formest)

1. (superlative) earliest, oldest (in time)
2. (superlative) first, foremost (in number, sequence, or rank)
3. primitive, primordial
4. bygone, preceding, preceding

• formere
• formest

forme

1. alternative form of formen

From Old French forme.

• IPA^(key): /fɔrmə/

forme f (plural formes)

1. form

• French: forme

• forme on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

From Old French forme, borrowed from Latin forma.

• Audio (Jersey):

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forme f (plural formes)

1. (Jersey) form

From Old Norse forma.

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

• formbar
• omforme

• form (noun)

• “forme” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• forma

From Old Norse forma.

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

• formbar

• form (noun)
• -forma

• “forme” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfor.me/, [ˈforˠ.me]

forme

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

• fourme, furme

From Latin fōrma.

forme oblique singular, f (oblique plural formes, nominative singular forme, nominative plural formes)

1. shape, aspect, form

• Middle French: forme
  • French: forme
• Norman: forme
• → Middle English: forme
  • English: form
  • Middle Scots: forme, fourme, furme
    • Scots: form; furm

• “forme”, in DEAF: Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français, Heidelberg: Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1968-.

forme

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈforme]

forme f pl

1. plural of formă

forme

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