ferm
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
See farm.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ferm (countable and uncountable, plural ferms)
- (obsolete) rent for a farm
- He let his land to ferm.
- (obsolete) a farm
- (obsolete) an abode or place of residence
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book III, canto V:
- Out of her fleshly ferme fled to the place of paine..
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ferm” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
ferm (feminine ferma, masculine plural ferms, feminine plural fermes)
Derived termsEdit
NounEdit
ferm m (plural ferms)
- pavement (US), road surface (UK) (paved exterior surface)
Further readingEdit
- “ferm” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “ferm”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022
- “ferm” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “ferm” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Middle EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
ferm
- (Late Middle English) Alternative form of ferme (“lease”)
Etymology 2Edit
AdjectiveEdit
ferm
- Alternative form of ferme (“firm”)
Old FrenchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- furm (Tristan, Thomas d'Angleterre)
EtymologyEdit
AdjectiveEdit
ferm m (oblique and nominative feminine singular ferme)
DeclensionEdit
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
New Latin, from Fermi + -ium; named for Enrico Fermi.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
Chemical element | |
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ferm m inan
DeclensionEdit
Further readingEdit
- ferm in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- ferm in Polish dictionaries at PWN
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
AdjectiveEdit
ferm m or n (feminine singular fermă, masculine plural fermi, feminine and neuter plural ferme)
DeclensionEdit
ScotsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English ferme, from Anglo-Norman and Old French ferme, from Medieval Latin firma, from Old English fearm (“sustenance, food, supplies”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ferm (plural ferms)
- a farm
Derived termsEdit
- fermer (“farmer”)
- fermhoose (“farmhouse”)
- fermin (“farming”)
- ferm-servand (“farm-hand”)
- fermstockin (“livestock”)
- fermtoun (“the homested of a farm”)
ReferencesEdit
- “ferm” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.