formula
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin formula (“a small pattern or mold, form, rule, principle, method, formula”), diminutive of forma (“a form”); see form.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɔː.mjʊ.lə/
Audio (UK) (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɔɹ.mjə.lə/
Noun edit
formula (countable and uncountable, plural formulae or formulas or formulæ)
- (mathematics) Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically.
- Synonym: mathematical formula
- is a formula for finding the roots of the quadratic equation ax2 + bx + c = 0.
- Hyponyms: Brahmagupta's formula, Bretschneider's formula, Cauchy's integral formula, Cayley's formula, De Moivre's formula, Euler's formula, Faulhaber's formula, Heron's formula, haversine formula, Jacobi's formula, Legendre's formula, Stirling's formula, Vieta's formulas, Viète's formula
- (chemistry) A symbolic expression of the structure of a compound.
- Synonym: chemical formula
- H2O is the formula for water.
- A plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result.
- The company's winning formula includes excellent service and quality products.
- 2017 March 14, Stuart James, “Leicester stun Sevilla to reach last eight after Kasper Schmeichel save”, in the Guardian[1]:
- Shakespeare has gone back to the formula of last season, by encouraging his players to press high up the pitch and restoring Shinji Okazaki to the starting XI to scurry around between midfield and attack.
- 2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 42:
- Delays, large and small, have a huge variety of causes, so there is no magic formula for preventing them.
- A formulation; a prescription; a mixture or solution made in a prescribed manner; the identity and quantities of ingredients of such a mixture.
- The formula of the rocket fuel has not been revealed.
- (especially religion) A formal statement of doctrine.
- 2004, Thomas Fisch, editor, Primary Readings on the Eucharist, Liturgical Press, →ISBN, footnote, page 34:
- The extract from the Missal of Constance, which was printed before the editio princeps […] does not contain the formulae for Advent, Sundays after Epiphany, Lent and the Sundays after Easter and Pentecost; […]
- (countable, uncountable) Ellipsis of infant formula; drink given to babies to substitute for mother's milk.
- 2018, Kristin Lawless, Formerly known as food, →ISBN:
- Many women advocate for formula, insisting that women who advocate breast-feeding have become self-righteous “lactavists,” as one writer puts it.
- (logic) A syntactic expression of a proposition, built up from quantifiers, logical connectives, variables, relation and operation symbols, and, depending on the type of logic, possibly other operators such as modal, temporal, deontic or epistemic ones.
- Hyponym: sentence
Derived terms edit
- Abel-Plana formula
- Abel's formula
- Abel's summation formula
- atomic formula
- baby formula
- Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe formula
- Balmer formula
- Barcan formula
- Bazin's formula
- BBP formula
- Bellard's formula
- Bethe formula
- Buridan formula
- Chézy formula
- Christoffel-Darboux formula
- closed formula
- condensed formula
- cosine formula
- Darboux's formula
- de Moivre's formula
- dental formula
- distance formula
- empirical formula
- Euler-Maclaurin formula
- Euler's continued fraction formula
- Euler's polyhedron formula
- Faà di Bruno's formula
- formula architecture
- formula investing
- formula investor
- Formula One
- formula plan
- formula racing
- formulate
- formulation
- formula unit
- Gauss's area formula
- general formula
- Hadjicostas's formula
- Kekule formula
- Kekulé formula
- Kingman's formula
- Lagrange's interpolation formula
- Liouville's formula
- Manning formula
- molecular formula
- multiformula
- Newton-Cotes formula
- offering formula
- Perron's formula
- Pollaczek-Khinchine formula
- prime formula
- quadratic formula
- Rand formula
- Rydberg formula
- shoelace formula
- sine formula
- skeletal formula
- structural formula
- surveyor's formula
- Sylvester's formula
- Trinitarian formula
- trinitarian formula
- Tupper's self-referential formula
- Vieta's formula
- Voronoi formula
- well-formed formula
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
Translations edit
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Further reading edit
- “formula”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “formula”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- Formula in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Catalan edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
formula
- inflection of formular:
Crimean Tatar edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin formula (“small form”), from forma (“form”).
Noun edit
formula
Declension edit
nominative | formula |
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genitive | formulanıñ |
dative | formulağa |
accusative | formulanı |
locative | formulada |
ablative | formuladan |
References edit
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
formula
- (motor racing) a Formula One racing car
Declension edit
Inflection of formula (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | formula | formulat | ||
genitive | formulan | formuloiden formuloitten | ||
partitive | formulaa | formuloita | ||
illative | formulaan | formuloihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | formula | formulat | ||
accusative | nom. | formula | formulat | |
gen. | formulan | |||
genitive | formulan | formuloiden formuloitten formulainrare | ||
partitive | formulaa | formuloita | ||
inessive | formulassa | formuloissa | ||
elative | formulasta | formuloista | ||
illative | formulaan | formuloihin | ||
adessive | formulalla | formuloilla | ||
ablative | formulalta | formuloilta | ||
allative | formulalle | formuloille | ||
essive | formulana | formuloina | ||
translative | formulaksi | formuloiksi | ||
abessive | formulatta | formuloitta | ||
instructive | — | formuloin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading edit
- “formula”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][3] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Verb edit
formula
- third-person singular past historic of formuler
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin formula (“a small pattern or mold, form, rule, principle, method, formula”), diminutive of forma (“a form”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
formula (plural formulák)
- formula (an established form of words for use in a procedure)
- formula (a plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result)
- (archaic) spell, charm, incantation (words or a formula supposed to have magical powers)
Declension edit
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | formula | formulák |
accusative | formulát | formulákat |
dative | formulának | formuláknak |
instrumental | formulával | formulákkal |
causal-final | formuláért | formulákért |
translative | formulává | formulákká |
terminative | formuláig | formulákig |
essive-formal | formulaként | formulákként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | formulában | formulákban |
superessive | formulán | formulákon |
adessive | formulánál | formuláknál |
illative | formulába | formulákba |
sublative | formulára | formulákra |
allative | formulához | formulákhoz |
elative | formulából | formulákból |
delative | formuláról | formulákról |
ablative | formulától | formuláktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
formuláé | formuláké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
formuláéi | formulákéi |
Possessive forms of formula | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | formulám | formuláim |
2nd person sing. | formulád | formuláid |
3rd person sing. | formulája | formulái |
1st person plural | formulánk | formuláink |
2nd person plural | formulátok | formuláitok |
3rd person plural | formulájuk | formuláik |
References edit
- ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin fōrmula.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
formula (first-person possessive formulaku, second-person possessive formulamu, third-person possessive formulanya)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “formula” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
formula f (plural formule)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
formula
- inflection of formulare:
References edit
- ^ formula in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfoːr.mu.la/, [ˈfoːrmʊɫ̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfor.mu.la/, [ˈfɔrmulä]
Noun edit
fōrmula f (genitive fōrmulae); first declension
- shape, outline
- (fine) form; beauty
- pattern, mould; paradigm
- form, rule, method, formula
- lawsuit, action
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | fōrmula | fōrmulae |
Genitive | fōrmulae | fōrmulārum |
Dative | fōrmulae | fōrmulīs |
Accusative | fōrmulam | fōrmulās |
Ablative | fōrmulā | fōrmulīs |
Vocative | fōrmula | fōrmulae |
Descendants edit
- → Catalan: fórmula (learned)
- → English: formula
- → French: formule (learned)
- → Galician: fórmula (learned)
- → Occitan: formula (learned)
- → Polish: formuła (learned)
- → Portuguese: fórmula (learned)
- → Romanian: formulă (learned)
- → Russian: фо́рмула (fórmula)
- → Spanish: fórmula (learned)
- → Ukrainian: фо́рмула (fórmula)
References edit
- “formula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “formula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- formula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “formula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- formula in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[4], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “formula”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Occitan edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Noun edit
formula f (plural formulas)
- (mathematics) formula (any mathematical rule expressed symbolically)
- (chemistry) formula (a symbolic expression of the structure of a compound)
- form (a blank document or template to be filled in by the user)
Portuguese edit
Verb edit
formula
- inflection of formular:
Romanian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from French formuler.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
a formula (third-person singular present formulează, past participle formulat) 1st conj.
- to formulate
Conjugation edit
infinitive | a formula | ||||||
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gerund | formulând | ||||||
past participle | formulat | ||||||
number | singular | plural | |||||
person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |
indicative | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
present | formulez | formulezi | formulează | formulăm | formulați | formulează | |
imperfect | formulam | formulai | formula | formulam | formulați | formulau | |
simple perfect | formulai | formulași | formulă | formularăm | formularăți | formulară | |
pluperfect | formulasem | formulaseși | formulase | formulaserăm | formulaserăți | formulaseră | |
subjunctive | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
present | să formulez | să formulezi | să formuleze | să formulăm | să formulați | să formuleze | |
imperative | — | tu | — | — | voi | — | |
affirmative | formulează | formulați | |||||
negative | nu formula | nu formulați |
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
formula f
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
fȏrmula f (Cyrillic spelling фо̑рмула)
Declension edit
Slovak edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
formula f (declension pattern of žena)
Declension edit
Further reading edit
- “formula”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Spanish edit
Verb edit
formula
- inflection of formular: