formus
Esperanto
Verb
formus
- conditional of formi
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *formos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰermos, from *gʷʰer- (“warm, hot”).[1]
Cognates include Sanskrit घर्म (gharma), Old Armenian ջերմ (ǰerm), Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós), Proto-Slavic *gorěti, Welsh gwres, and Old English wearm (English warm).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfor.mus/, [ˈfɔrmʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfor.mus/, [ˈfɔrmus]
Adjective
formus (feminine forma, neuter formum); first/second-declension adjective
- (archaic) warm
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | formus | forma | formum | formī | formae | forma | |
| Genitive | formī | formae | formī | formōrum | formārum | formōrum | |
| Dative | formō | formō | formīs | ||||
| Accusative | formum | formam | formum | formōs | formās | forma | |
| Ablative | formō | formā | formō | formīs | |||
| Vocative | forme | forma | formum | formī | formae | forma | |
Derived terms
- forceps
Related terms
- fornāx
- fornus (alternative form of furnus preserving the o)
References
- “formus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- formus 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)
- formus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “formus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 235