forme

See also: -forme, formé, formě, and formę

English

Noun

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.

Anagrams

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

Asturian

Verb

forme

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

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔrmə/, [ˈfɒːmə]

Etymology 1

See form (“shape, form”).

Noun

forme c

1. indefinite plural of form

Etymology 2

From form (“shape, form”).

Verb

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

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔʁm/

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Noun

forme f (plural formes)

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

Derived terms

• en bonne et due forme
• en forme
• forme canonique
• forme fruste
• mettre les formes
• péter la forme
• plate-forme
• pour la forme
• prendre forme
• sans autre forme de procès
• vice de forme
• y mettre les formes

Related terms

• difforme
• formel
• former
• formule
  • formulaire
• informe

Descendants

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

Verb

forme

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

Further reading

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

German

Verb

forme

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

Italian

Noun

forme f pl

1. plural of forma

Anagrams

• Fermo, fermo, fermò, fremo

Latin

Adjective

forme

1. vocative masculine singular of formus