ferm

Contents

EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• ferme

EtymologyEdit

See farm.

NounEdit

ferm (countable and uncountable, plural ferms)

1. (obsolete) rent for a farm

   He let his land to ferm.

2. (obsolete) a farm
3. (obsolete) an abode or place of residence
   • Edmund Spenser

     Out of her fleshy ferme fled to the place of pain.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

• REMF, frem

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CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin firmus.

AdjectiveEdit

ferm (feminine ferma, masculine plural ferms, feminine plural fermes)

1. firm (steadfast, secure)
2. firm (fixed in opinion)
3. firm (solid, rigid)

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from ferm

• fermesa

NounEdit

ferm m (plural ferms)

1. pavement (US), road surface (UK) (paved exterior surface)

Further readingEdit

• “ferm” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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Old FrenchEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• furm (Tristan, Thomas d'Angleterre)

EtymologyEdit

From Latin firmus.

AdjectiveEdit

ferm m (oblique and nominative feminine singular ferme)

1. firm

DeclensionEdit

Declension of ferm

Number	Case	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Singular	Subject	ferms	ferme	ferm
	Oblique	ferm	ferme	ferm
Plural	Subject	ferm	fermes	ferm
	Oblique	ferms	fermes	ferm

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PolishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /fɛrm/

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NounEdit

Chemical element
Fm	Previous: einstein (Es)
	Next: mendelew (Md)

ferm m inan

1. fermium

DeclensionEdit

declension of ferm

	singular
nominative	ferm
genitive	fermu
dative	fermowi
accusative	ferm
instrumental	fermem
locative	fermie
vocative	fermie

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ScotsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old English fearm, from Proto-Germanic *farmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pórmos, from *per- (“to cross over”).

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): [fɛrm], [ferm]

NounEdit

ferm (plural ferms)

1. a farm

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from ferm

• fermer (“farmer”)
• fermhoose (“farmhouse”)

• fermin (“farming”)
• ferm-servand (“farm-hand”)

• fermstockin (“livestock”)
• fermtoun (“the homested of a farm”)