# formula
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin formula (“a small pattern or mold, form, rule, principle, method, formula”), diminutive of forma (“a form”); see form.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈfɔː.mjʊ.lə/
** Audio (UK):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈfɔɹ.mjə.lə/
* Hyphenation: for‧mu‧la

### Noun

formula (countable and uncountable, plural formulae or formulas or formulæ)
* (mathematics) Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically.
    Synonym: mathematical formula
    $x={\frac {-b\pm {\sqrt {b^{2}-4ac}}}{2a}}$ is a formula for finding the roots of the quadratic equation ax$^2$ + bx + c = 0.
    Hyponyms: Brahmagupta's formula, Bretschneider's formula, Cauchy's integral formula, Cayley's formula, De Moivre's formula, Euler's formula, Faulhaber's formula, Heron's formula, haversine formula, Jacobi's formula, Legendre's formula, Stirling's formula, Vieta's formulas, Viète's formula
* (chemistry) A symbolic expression of the structure of a compound.
    Synonym: chemical formula
    H$_2$O is the formula for water.
* A plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result.
    The company's winning formula includes excellent service and quality products.
** 2017 March 14, Stuart James, “Leicester stun Sevilla to reach last eight after Kasper Schmeichel save”, in the Guardian‎:Shakespeare has gone back to the formula of last season, by encouraging his players to press high up the pitch and restoring Shinji Okazaki to the starting XI to scurry around between midfield and attack.
** 2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 42:Delays, large and small, have a huge variety of causes, so there is no magic formula for preventing them.
* A formulation; a prescription; a mixture or solution made in a prescribed manner; the identity and quantities of ingredients of such a mixture.
    The formula of the rocket fuel has not been revealed.
* (chiefly linguistics) A fixed phrase or set of words intended to be interpeted non-literally, typically used attitudinally or as part of convention.
    Avoid the typical epistolic formalae, such as "Kind regards".
* (Can we verify this sense?) (especially religion) A formal statement of doctrine.
** 2004, Thomas Fisch, editor, Primary Readings on the Eucharist, Liturgical Press, →ISBN, footnote, page 34:The extract from the Missal of Constance, which was printed before the editio princeps […] does not contain the formulae for Advent, Sundays after Epiphany, Lent and the Sundays after Easter and Pentecost; […]
* (countable, uncountable) Ellipsis of infant formula; drink given to babies to substitute for mother's milk.
** 2018, Kristin Lawless, Formerly known as food, →ISBN:Many women advocate for formula, insisting that women who advocate breast-feeding have become self-righteous “lactavists,” as one writer puts it.
* (logic) A syntactic expression of a proposition, built up from quantifiers, logical connectives, variables, relation and operation symbols, and, depending on the type of logic, possibly other operators such as modal, temporal, deontic or epistemic ones.
    Hyponym: sentence

#### Derived terms

* Abel-Plana formula
* Abel's formula
* Abel's summation formula
* atomic formula
* baby formula
* Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe formula
* Balmer formula
* Barcan formula
* Bazin's formula
* BBP formula
* Bellard's formula
* Bethe formula
* Buridan formula
* Chézy formula
* Christoffel-Darboux formula
* closed formula
* condensed formula
* cosine formula
* counterformula
* Darboux's formula
* de Moivre's formula
* dental formula
* distance formula
* empirical formula
* Euler-Maclaurin formula
* Euler's continued fraction formula
* Euler's polyhedron formula
* Faà di Bruno's formula
* floral formula
* formula architecture
* formula investing
* formula investor
* Formula One
* formula plan
* formula racing
* formulary
* formulate
* formulation
* formula unit
* formulist
* formulize
* Fortran
* Gauss's area formula
* general formula
* Hadjicostas's formula
* Kekule formula
* Kekulé formula
* Kingman's formula
* Klein-Nishina formula
* Lagrange's interpolation formula
* Larmor formula
* Liouville's formula
* Manning formula
* molecular formula
* multiformula
* Newton-Cotes formula
* offering formula
* Perron's formula
* Pollaczek-Khinchine formula
* prime formula
* quadratic formula
* Rand formula
* Rydberg formula
* shoelace formula
* sine formula
* skeletal formula
* stereoformula
* structural formula
* subformula
* superformula
* surveyor's formula
* Sylvester's formula
* Trinitarian formula
* trinitarian formula
* Tupper's self-referential formula
* Vieta's formula
* Voronoi formula
* well-formed formula

#### Related terms

* form
* formulaic
* formulism

#### Descendants

* Irish: foirmle
* Scottish Gaelic: foirmle

#### Translations
### Further reading

* “formula”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “formula”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* Formula in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [furˈmu.lə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [foɾˈmu.la]

### Verb

formula
* inflection of formular:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Crimean Tatar
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin formula (“small form”), from forma (“form”).

### Noun

formula
* formula

#### Declension
### References

* Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

## Finnish
### Etymology

From English formula.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈformulɑ/, [ˈfo̞rmulɑ̝]
* Rhymes: -ormulɑ
* Hyphenation: for‧mu‧la

### Noun

formula
* (motor racing) a Formula One racing car

#### Declension

Possessive forms of formula (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
formulani
formulani
accusative
nom.
formulani
formulani
gen.
formulani
genitive
formulani
formuloideni formuloitteni formulaini $^{rare}$
partitive
formulaani
formuloitani
inessive
formulassani
formuloissani
elative
formulastani
formuloistani
illative
formulaani
formuloihini
adessive
formulallani
formuloillani
ablative
formulaltani
formuloiltani
allative
formulalleni
formuloilleni
essive
formulanani
formuloinani
translative
formulakseni
formuloikseni
abessive
formulattani
formuloittani
instructive
comitative
—formuloineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
formulasi
formulasi
accusative
nom.
formulasi
formulasi
gen.
formulasi
genitive
formulasi
formuloidesi formuloittesi formulaisi $^{rare}$
partitive
formulaasi
formuloitasi
inessive
formulassasi
formuloissasi
elative
formulastasi
formuloistasi
illative
formulaasi
formuloihisi
adessive
formulallasi
formuloillasi
ablative
formulaltasi
formuloiltasi
allative
formulallesi
formuloillesi
essive
formulanasi
formuloinasi
translative
formulaksesi
formuloiksesi
abessive
formulattasi
formuloittasi
instructive
comitative
—formuloinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
formulamme
formulamme
accusative
nom.
formulamme
formulamme
gen.
formulamme
genitive
formulamme
formuloidemme formuloittemme formulaimme $^{rare}$
partitive
formulaamme
formuloitamme
inessive
formulassamme
formuloissamme
elative
formulastamme
formuloistamme
illative
formulaamme
formuloihimme
adessive
formulallamme
formuloillamme
ablative
formulaltamme
formuloiltamme
allative
formulallemme
formuloillemme
essive
formulanamme
formuloinamme
translative
formulaksemme
formuloiksemme
abessive
formulattamme
formuloittamme
instructive
comitative
—formuloinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
formulanne
formulanne
accusative
nom.
formulanne
formulanne
gen.
formulanne
genitive
formulanne
formuloidenne formuloittenne formulainne $^{rare}$
partitive
formulaanne
formuloitanne
inessive
formulassanne
formuloissanne
elative
formulastanne
formuloistanne
illative
formulaanne
formuloihinne
adessive
formulallanne
formuloillanne
ablative
formulaltanne
formuloiltanne
allative
formulallenne
formuloillenne
essive
formulananne
formuloinanne
translative
formulaksenne
formuloiksenne
abessive
formulattanne
formuloittanne
instructive
comitative
—formuloinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
formulansa
formulansa
accusative
nom.
formulansa
formulansa
gen.
formulansa
genitive
formulansa
formuloidensa formuloittensa formulainsa $^{rare}$
partitive
formulaansa
formuloitaan formuloitansa
inessive
formulassaan formulassansa
formuloissaan formuloissansa
elative
formulastaan formulastansa
formuloistaan formuloistansa
illative
formulaansa
formuloihinsa
adessive
formulallaan formulallansa
formuloillaan formuloillansa
ablative
formulaltaan formulaltansa
formuloiltaan formuloiltansa
allative
formulalleen formulallensa
formuloilleen formuloillensa
essive
formulanaan formulanansa
formuloinaan formuloinansa
translative
formulakseen formulaksensa
formuloikseen formuloiksensa
abessive
formulattaan formulattansa
formuloittaan formuloittansa
instructive
comitative
—formuloineen formuloinensa :

#### Derived terms

* formula-ajo
* formula-auto
* formulakilpailu
* formulakuljettaja
* formulakuski
* formularata

### Further reading

* “formula”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

formula
* third-person singular past historic of formuler

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin formula (“a small pattern or mold, form, rule, principle, method, formula”), diminutive of forma (“a form”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈformulɒ]
* Hyphenation: for‧mu‧la
* Rhymes: -lɒ

### Noun

formula (plural formulák)
* formula (an established form of words for use in a procedure)
* formula (a plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result)
* (archaic) spell, charm, incantation (words or a formula supposed to have magical powers)

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

### Further reading

* formula 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

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fōrmula.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [fɔrˈmula]
* Hyphenation: for‧mu‧la

### Noun

formula (uncountable)
* formula
    Synonym: rumus

#### Derived terms

* formula bayi
* formula du bois
* formula susu kedelai jagung

### Further reading

* “formula” 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.

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɔr.mu.la/, /ˈfor.mu.la/
* Rhymes: -ɔrmula, -ormula
* Hyphenation: fòr‧mu‧la, fór‧mu‧la

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin formula.

#### Noun

formula f (plural formule)
* (mathematics, chemistry) formula

##### Derived terms

* formulare
* Formula Uno

##### Related terms

* forma

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

formula
* inflection of formulare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### References

* ↑ formula in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* fulmaro

## Latin
### Etymology

From fōrma +‎ -ula.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈfoːr.mu.la/, [ˈfoːrmʊɫ̪ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈfor.mu.la/, [ˈfɔrmulä]

### Noun

fōrmula f (genitive fōrmulae); first declension
* shape, outline
* (fine) form; beauty
* pattern, mould; paradigm
* form, rule, method, formula
* lawsuit, action

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: fórmula (learned)
* → English: formula
** Irish: foirmle
** Scottish Gaelic: foirmle
* → French: formule (learned)
* → Galician: fórmula (learned)
* → Italian: formula (learned)
* → Occitan: formula (learned)
* → Polish: formuła (learned)
* → Portuguese: fórmula (learned)
* → Romanian: formulă (learned)
* → Russian: фо́рмула (fórmula)
* → Spanish: fórmula (learned)
* → Ukrainian: фо́рмула (fórmula)

### References

* “formula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “formula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "formula", 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)
* “formula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* formula in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
* “formula”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

## Occitan
### Etymology

From Latin fōrmula.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

formula f (plural formulas)
* (mathematics) formula (any mathematical rule expressed symbolically)
* (chemistry) formula (a symbolic expression of the structure of a compound)
* form (a blank document or template to be filled in by the user)

## Portuguese
### Verb

formula
* inflection of formular:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from French formuler.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [for.muˈla]

#### Verb

a formula (third-person singular present formulează, past participle formulat) 1st conjugation
* to formulate

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [forˈmu.la]

#### Noun

formula f
* definite nominative/accusative singular of formulă

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin formula.

### Noun

fȏrmula f (Cyrillic spelling фо̑рмула)
* (mathematics, chemistry, logic) formula
* rule

#### Declension
## Slovak
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfɔrmula]

### Noun

formula f (declension pattern of žena)
* formula

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “formula”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

## Spanish
### Verb

formula
* inflection of formular:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative