multiforme
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /myl.ti.fɔʁm/
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Further reading
- “multiforme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
From Latin multifōrmis, calque of Ancient Greek πολύμορφος (polúmorphos). By surface analysis, multi- (“many”, “multi-”, multiplying prefix) + -forme (“form”, “shape”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mul.tiˈfor.me/
- Rhymes: -orme
- Hyphenation: mul‧ti‧fór‧me
Adjective
multiforme (plural multiformi)
- multiform
- varied
- versatile
- 2015, Daniele Luttazzi, “Bloom: Porno-Teo-Kolossal”, in Bloom: Porno-Teo-Kolossal, 1st edition (satirical parody; paperback), Il Fatto Quotidiano, A, page 7:
- Un uom dal multiforme ingegno vive, del mondo esperto, e delli vizi umani e del valore, rege d'Itaca pietrosa
- A man of multiform ingenuity lives, experienced of the world, and of human vices and virtue, king of rocky Ithaca.
Latin
Spanish
Further reading
- “multiforme”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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