# forme
## English
### Noun

forme (plural formes)
* 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 […]
* (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
* first-person singular present subjunctive of formar
* third-person singular present subjunctive of formar

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɔrmə/, [ˈfɒːmə]

### Etymology 1

See form (“shape, form”).

#### Noun

forme c
* 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)
* shape
* clay
* mould
* form, frame

## French
### Etymology

(11th c.) From Middle French forme, from Old French forme, from Latin fōrma. Possibly cognate with Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ). Cognate with English form via Old French.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɔʁm/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

forme f (plural formes)
* shape (geometrical representation)
* shape (physical appearance)
* 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
* inflection of former:
** third-person singular present indicative
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** 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
* inflection of formen:
** first-person singular present
** first/third-person singular subjunctive I
** singular imperative

## Italian
### Noun

forme f pl
* plural of forma

### Anagrams

* Fermo, fermo, fermò, fremo

## Latin
### Adjective

forme
* vocative masculine singular of formus

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French forme, fourme, from Latin fōrma, of unclear origin.
For possible differentiation in pronunciation by sense, see the usage note at Modern English form.

#### Alternative forms

* form, foorm, foorme, fourm, fourme, furme
* fform, fforme (Late Middle English)
* fwrme (Early Scots)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɔrm(ə)/, /ˈfurm(ə)/, /ˈfuːrm(ə)/

#### Noun

forme (plural formes)
* Form; the shape or appearance of something:
** (art or religion) A representation, likeness or depiction.
** (rare) A preternatural figure; an apparition.
* The manner, style, or means something is done in:
** Convention, procedure; established practice.
** The characteristic behaviour associated with a group.
** The wording or formulation of a textual passage.
** An educational or medical course or schedule.
* An exemplar or model:
** A mould or cast; an implement for shaping.
** (fashion) The style or specifications of a garment.
** (rare, philosophy) An archetype or pattern.
* A structure, support, or frame, especially:
** A bench without a back.
** (hunting) The den or home of a hare.
* (law) A instruction or the document containing it.
* (philosophy) The essential category of something (Aristotle's μορφή)}

##### Related terms

* formal
* formen
* formere

##### Descendants

* English: form
* Middle Scots: forme, fourme, furme
** Scots: form; furm

##### References

* ↑ “fō̆rme , n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
* ↑ Dobson, E. J. (1957) English pronunciation 1500-1700‎, second edition, volume II: Phonology, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1968, →OCLC, § 17, page 489.

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Old English forma, from Proto-West Germanic *formō, *frumō, from Proto-Germanic *frumô.

#### Alternative forms

* form
* forrme (Ormulum)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɔrm(ə)/

#### Adjective

forme (plural and weak singular forme, comparative formere, superlative formest)
* (superlative) earliest, oldest (in time)
* (superlative) first, foremost (in number, sequence, or rank)
* primitive, primordial
* bygone, preceding, preceding

##### Related terms

* formere
* formest

##### References

* ↑ “forme, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

forme
* Alternative form of formen

## Norman
### Etymology

From Old French forme, borrowed from Latin forma.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Jersey):(file)

### Noun

forme f (plural formes)
* (Jersey) form

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse forma.

### Verb

forme (imperative form, present tense former, passive formes, simple past and past participle forma or formet, present participle formende)
* to form
* to shape

#### Derived terms

* formbar
* omforme

#### Related terms

* form (noun)

### References

* “forme” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* forma

### Etymology

From Old Norse forma.

### Verb

forme (present tense formar, past tense forma, past participle forma, passive infinitive formast, present participle formande, imperative forme/form)
* to form
* to shape

#### Derived terms

* formbar

#### Related terms

* form (noun)
* -forma

### References

* “forme” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfor.me/, [ˈforˠ.me]

### Adjective

forme
* inflection of forma:
** nominative feminine/neuter singular
** accusative neuter singular

## Portuguese
### Verb

forme
* inflection of formar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈforme]

### Noun

forme f pl
* plural of formă

## Spanish
### Verb

forme
* inflection of formar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative