forma

From Latin fōrma.

forma m (plural formes)

1. shape, form

Ultimately from Latin fōrma.

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forma (definite accusative formanı, plural formalar)

1. shape, form

   Synonym: şəkil

2. uniform (especially of school uniform)

   məktəb forması ― school uniform

3. (grammar) mood

• “forma” in Obastan.com.

Borrowed from Spanish forma.

• IPA^(key): /forma/, [fo̞r.ma]

forma inan

1. form, shape

• "forma" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
• “forma” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈfor.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈfoɾ.ma]

Borrowed from Latin fōrma.

forma f (plural formes)

1. form; shape

• formar

• “forma” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “forma”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “forma” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “forma” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

forma

1. inflection of formar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Inherited from Old Czech forma, from Latin fōrma.

• IPA^(key): [ˈforma]
• Rhymes: -orma
• Hyphenation: for‧ma

forma f

1. form, shape
2. mold/mould (for shaping a fluid or plastic substance)

• forma in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• forma in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• forma in Internetová jazyková příručka

• morfa

forma

1. third-person singular past historic of former

From Old Galician-Portuguese forma (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin fōrma. Cognate with Portuguese forma and Spanish horma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfoɾma̝/

forma f (plural formas)

1. form, shape
2. mold, cast
3. cake tin
4. button

   Synonym: botón

5. shoe tree

• formal
• formar

• “forma” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “forma” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “forma” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “forma” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “forma” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Borrowed from Latin forma, perhaps from Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ, “shape, figure”), via Etruscan.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈformɒ]

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• Hyphenation: for‧ma
• Rhymes: -mɒ

forma (plural formák)

1. form
2. shape

• alak

• forma in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔrma/
• Rhymes: -ɔrma

forma (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative formaði, supine formað)

1. (transitive, with accusative) to form, to shape

Learned borrowing from Latin fōrma (“form”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɔrma]
• Hyphenation: for‧ma

forma (first-person possessive formaku, second-person possessive formamu, third-person possessive formanya)

1. (biology, taxonomy) form: an infraspecific rank.

• “forma” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from Russian форма (forma).

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈformɑ/, [ˈfo̞rm]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈformɑ/, [ˈfo̞rmɑ]
• Rhymes: -orm, -ormɑ
• Hyphenation: for‧ma

forma

1. form, shape
   • 1936, L. G. Terehova, V. G. Erdeli, translated by Mihailov and P. I. Maksimov, Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun kolmatta klaassaa vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 3:

     Töö saatta tiitä kuin suur ono maa, millaist hää ono formaa ja mitä ono hänen pääl.

     You will get to know how the earth is big, what kind of shape it is and what is on top of it.

2. (grammar) form
   • 1936, V. I. Junus, Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 31:

     Forma "metsääs" vastajaa kysymyksee mis? kus?

     The form "metsääs" answers the question where?

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 39

forma (plural formas)

1. form

• IPA^(key): /ˈfor.ma/
• Rhymes: -orma
• Hyphenation: fór‧ma

From Latin forma, from Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ); see Latin entry.

forma f (plural forme)

1. form
2. shape
3. mould/mold

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

forma

1. inflection of formare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Latin fōrma.

forma f (plural formes)

1. form
2. shape

• fōrm. (abbreviation)

Unknown. Perhaps from an Etruscan *morma, from Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ, “shape, fashion, appearance, outward form, contour, figure”), with dissimilation *m-m > *f-m, as seen in formīca (“ant”) and formīdō (“ghost, scarecrow”).[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfoːr.ma/, [ˈfoːrmä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfor.ma/, [ˈfɔrmä]

fōrma f (genitive fōrmae); first declension

1. form; figure, shape, appearance

   Synonyms: habitus, faciēs, species, frons

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.71–72:

     “Sunt mihi bis septem praestantī corpore nymphae,
     quārum quae fōrmā pulcherrima Dēiopēa.”

     “I have twice-seven nymphs, [each] with a gorgeous body, of whom [the nymph] who [has] the most beautiful figure [is] Deiopea.”
     (Juno attempts to bribe Aeolus with an arranged marriage. Notes: The dative of possession “sunt mihi” means “they are for me” or simply “I have.” The ablative of quality “praestanti corpore” here is singular despite the plural “nymphae.” The ablative of specification “forma” here means “with respect to appearance.”)

2. fine form; beauty
3. outline, plan, design
4. model, pattern, stamp, mold

   Synonyms: charta, tabula

5. (figurative) manner, kind, sort

First-declension noun.

• "forma", in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "forma", in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• forma 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)
• forma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• "forma" in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "forma" in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• "forma" in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “forma”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 3: D–F, page 713
• Palmer, L.R. (1906) The Latin Language, London, Faber and Faber

• f. (abbreviation)

Borrowed from Latin forma.

fòrma f (plural fòrmos) stress pattern 1

1. form

Borrowed from Sicilian furma and/or Italian forma, both from Latin forma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔr.ma/

forma f (plural forom)

1. form, shape

   Synonym: għamla

2. mould

• form

Inherited from Old Polish forma.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɔrma]
• Syllabification: for‧ma

forma f (diminutive formkä)

1. form (one of the ways in which something appears; appearance; manifestation)
2. form (type, kind)
3. cast, mold, cake tin (kitchenware used for shaping batter or something similar)
4. fireplace in a forge

• Zofia Stamirowska (1987-2024) “form, forma”, in Anna Basara, editor, Słownik gwar Ostródzkiego, Warmii i Mazur‎, volume 2, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, →ISBN, page 221

• formen m (of noun)
• formet (of verb)

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forma f

1. definite feminine singular of form

forma

1. inflection of forme:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

• a-form, amorf, omfar

forma f

1. definite singular of form

Learned borrowing from Latin fōrma.[1]

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈforma/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈforma/

forma f

1. form; appearance
2. form; shape
3. former, creator
4. form (state of some event)
5. form, template, pattern
6. form, model
7. mandatory procedure, fixed succession of individual parts
8. (religion) formula (set phrasing)
9. (religion) spiritual essence
10. (philosophy) image in the mind, ideal mental image

• Czech: forma

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “forma”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

From Proto-Germanic *frumô. Cognate with Old Saxon formo and Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌿𐌼𐌰 (fruma).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfor.mɑ/, [ˈforˠ.mɑ]

forma

1. first

forma

1. first

• Middle English: frome, frume

Learned borrowing from Latin fōrma.[1][2][3][4] First attested in the end of the 14th century.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /fɔrma/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /fɔrma/

forma f

1. form (external shape)
   • Middle of the 15th century, Rozmyślanie o żywocie Pana Jezusa‎, page 198:

     Pokazal szye byl (sc. szatan) ve czlovyeczym vyobrazenyv... Vyerzycz tesch temv mamy, yze byl przyąl czlovyeka formą na szye (credendus est autem diabolus hominis assumpsisse formam), v ktorey by mogl boga vznacz albo szye s nym vmovycz

     [Pokazał sie był (sc. szatan) we człowieczym wyobrażeniu... Wierzyć też temu mamy, iże był przyjął człowieka formę na sie (credendus est autem diabolus hominis assumpsisse formam), w ktorej by mogł Boga uznać albo sie s nim umowić]

   • 1922 [End of the 14th century], Jan Łoś, editor, Początki piśmiennictwa polskiego. (Przegląd zabytków językowych)‎, page 232:

     [S]wyrzchowanego boga laska, gensze... koneczna moc vszmerzil gesc, w forme [...] obynyono gesc. Druga rzecz gesc, isze [...] [obi]nyony wszistki rzeczi w formø sluszeb[ną]

     [[Z]wirzchowanego Boga łaska, jenże... konieczną moc uśmierzył jeść, w formie [...] obiniono jeść. Druga rzecz jeść, iże [...] [obi]niony wszystki rzeczi w formę służeb[ną]]

2. verbal formula (set way of saying something)
   • 1895 [1448–1450], Mikołaj Suled, edited by Franciszek Piekosiński, Tłumaczenia polskie statutów ziemskich, Kodeks Świętosławów, Warka, page 106:

     Vstawyami czlonky nyzey popyssane pot thąn formąn, yako sąn nyzey (articulos statuimus... sub hac forma, quae sequitur)

     [Ustawiamy członki niżej popisane pod tą formą, jako są niżej (articulos statuimus... sub hac forma, quae sequitur)]

• Masurian: forma, form
• Polish: forma
  • → Kashubian: fòrma
• Silesian: forma

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “forma”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Inherited from Old Polish forma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔr.ma/
• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔr.ma/

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• Rhymes: -ɔrma
• Syllabification: for‧ma

forma f (diminutive foremka, related adjective formowy)

1. form (one of the ways in which something appears; appearance; manifestation)

   Synonyms: kształt, postać

2. (literary) form (way in which a work is constructed)
3. (literary) form (specific type of works of art perceived due to their external structure or structure and a set of typical artistic means)
4. cast, mold, cake tin (kitchenware used for shaping batter or something similar)

   Synonym: blacha

5. (textiles) pattern (paper or cardboard template from which the parts of a garment are traced onto fabric prior to cutting out and assembling)

   Synonym: wykrój

6. (grammar) form (particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech)
7. (sciences) form (living organisms or products of nature characterized by a set of common features)
8. state, shape (physical or mental conidition)

   Synonyms: kondycja, samopoczucie

9. shape (condition of personal health, especially muscular health)

   Synonym: kondycja

   w formie ― in shape

10. form (arrangement of coordinated elements)

    Synonyms: system, układ

11. mold (hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance)
12. (philosophy) form (inherent nature of an object; that which the mind itself contributes as the condition of knowing; that in which the essence of a thing consists)
13. (mathematics) uniform polynomial
14. (printing) template (set of printing elements prepared for printing)
15. (obsolete) pretend, act (something done for show)
16. (obsolete) box placed in the focus on a bellows nozzle; opening in a furnace
17. (obsolete, crystallography) form (combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol)
18. (obsolete, Roman Catholicism) choirstall

    Synonym: stalle

19. (chiefly in the plural) form (manner of conduct and behavior resulting from social conventions)

    Synonym: etykieta

• → Kashubian: fòrma

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), forma is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 49 times in scientific texts, 32 times in news, 71 times in essays, 7 times in fiction, and 5 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 164 times, making it the 349th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

• forma in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• forma in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “forma”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• “FORMA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 15.09.2008
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “forma”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “forma”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “forma”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 761

Borrowed (in this set of senses) from Latin fōrma (“form”), probably from Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ). See etymology 2 below for the inherited senses.

• Hyphenation: for‧ma

forma f (plural formas)

1. form; shape (the visible structure of a thing)
2. (geometry) shape; figure (a geometric object)
3. form (a conventional method way of doing something)
4. (grammar) form (each of the possible inflections of a lexeme)
5. (military) formation (alignment of troops)

• (structure or disposition): estrutura, disposição
• (geometrical shape): figura
• (manner): maneira, jeito
• (inflected form): flexão
• (formation): formação

From Old Galician-Portuguese forma, from Latin fōrma (“form”), ultimately from Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ).

• fôrma

• Hyphenation: for‧ma

forma f (plural formas)

1. tin (metal pan used for baking)
2. mould (hollow object into which a liquid is poured so that it solidifies into a specific shape)
3. (typography) type; sort (block used to print a character)

   Synonym: tipo

• letra de forma

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Hyphenation: for‧ma

forma

1. inflection of formar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from French former, Latin formare.

• IPA^(key): [forˈma]

a forma (third-person singular present formează, past participle format) 1st conj.

1. (transitive) to form, to create, to make
2. (transitive, of elements) to form, to make up

Forms of the above word.

• IPA^(key): [forˈma]

forma

1. third-person singular imperfect indicative of forma

Forms of the noun formă.

• IPA^(key): [ˈforma]

forma

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of formă

Borrowed from Latin fōrma.

• IPA^(key): /fôːrma/
• Hyphenation: for‧ma

fȏrma f (Cyrillic spelling фо̑рма)

1. form, shape
2. form, condition
3. formality

Inherited from Old Polish forma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔrma/
• Rhymes: -ɔrma
• Syllabification: for‧ma

forma f

1. form (one of the ways in which something appears; appearance; manifestation)
   • 2019–2020, Waldemar Szymczyk, editor, Pōnbōczkowi Świyczka‎, →ISBN, archived from the original on 12 November 2022, page 185:

     Nauka zdŏlnŏ – bydōncŏ wszeôbecnōm abo jedynōm na cołkim świecie formōm edukacyje – stŏwŏ sie niymożebnŏ.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• IPA^(key): /ˈfoɾma/ [ˈfoɾ.ma]
• Rhymes: -oɾma
• Syllabification: for‧ma

Borrowed from Latin fōrma, from Ancient Greek μόρφα (mórpha); see Latin entry. Compare the inherited doublet horma.

forma f (plural formas)

1. shape; form; figure
2. way; manner

   ¡Tiene que haber otra forma!

   There has to be another way!

3. basis; method

   Synonyms: base, método

forma

1. inflection of formar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

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

form +‎ -a

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forma (present formar, preterite formade, supine format, imperative forma)

1. to shape, give form

• formare
• formning
• utforma

• forma in Svensk ordbok.

• amorf

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish فورمه (forma, “a compositor's form”),[1] from Italian forma or French format.[2]

• IPA^(key): /foɾˈma/
• Hyphenation: for‧ma

forma (definite accusative formayı, plural formalar)

1. form, shape

   Synonyms: biçim, şekil

2. Matching clothes worn to indicate affiliation to a group; uniform, jersey, livery.

   Synonym: üniforma

3. (printing) A 16-page section of a book printed on a single sheet of paper; a signature.

• “forma”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “forma”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1608