forment
English
Verb
forment
- Misspelling of foment.
French
Verb
forment
- third-person plural present indicative of former
- third-person plural present subjunctive of former
Anagrams
- froment
Latin
Verb
forment
- third-person plural present active subjunctive of formō
Old French
Alternative forms
- fortement (appeared when forte replaced fort as the feminine of fort)
- fortment
Etymology
fort + -ment, with the loss of the medial t.
Adverb
forment
- strongly; powerfully
- highly; extremely, sorely
- seriously; greatly
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (forment)
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (fortement, supplement)
- forment on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub