forme
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forme (plural formes)
- 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 […]
- (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.
- 1978, David A. Bloestein, Introduction, John Marston, David A. Bloestein (editor), Parasitaster: Or, The Fawn, page 47,
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forme
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See form (“shape, form”).
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forme c
- indefinite plural of form
Etymology 2 edit
From form (“shape, form”).
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forme (imperative form, infinitive at forme, present tense former, past tense formede, perfect tense er/har formet)
French edit
Etymology edit
(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.
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forme f (plural formes)
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forme
- inflection of former:
Further reading edit
- “forme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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forme
- inflection of formen:
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forme f pl
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forme
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From Old French forme, borrowed from Latin forma.
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forme f (plural formes)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
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forme (imperative form, present tense former, passive formes, simple past and past participle forma or formet, present participle formende)
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- form (noun)
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- “forme” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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forme (present tense formar, past tense forma, past participle forma, passive infinitive formast, present participle formande, imperative forme/form)
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- “forme” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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forme
- inflection of formar:
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forme f pl
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forme
- inflection of formar: