farmer
English
Etymology
From Middle English fermor, ffermer, fermour (“a steward, bailliff, collector of taxes”), partly from Old French fermier (“a farmer, a lessee, husbandman, bailliff”), from Medieval Latin firmarius (“one to whom land is rented, a collector of taxes, deputy”), from firma, see farm; and partly from Old English feormere (“a purveyor of a guild, a supplier of food, a grocer, farmer”), from feormian (“to purvey, supply, feed”), equivalent to farm + -er. More at farm.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)mə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: farm‧er
Noun
farmer (plural farmers)
- A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock, especially on a farm.
- 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist[1], volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):
- A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.
- Agent noun of farm; someone or something that farms.
- (historical) One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent.
- a farmer of the revenues
- (historical, mining) The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.
Usage notes
Farmer is probably the last occupational descriptor to have been used as a prefix to a surname in everyday usage: e.g. Farmer Brown. This usage was common until the mid 20th century.
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Hungarian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German Farmer, from the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French fermier (“farmer”), from the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French ferme (“farm, rental”), from the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin ferma, firma (“rent, tribute, food, feast”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English feorm (“rent, provisions, supplies, feast”). More at farm.
Noun
farmer (plural farmerek)
Declension
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | farmer | farmerek |
accusative | farmert | farmereket |
dative | farmernek | farmereknek |
instrumental | farmerrel | farmerekkel |
causal-final | farmerért | farmerekért |
translative | farmerré | farmerekké |
terminative | farmerig | farmerekig |
essive-formal | farmerként | farmerekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | farmerben | farmerekben |
superessive | farmeren | farmereken |
adessive | farmernél | farmereknél |
illative | farmerbe | farmerekbe |
sublative | farmerre | farmerekre |
allative | farmerhez | farmerekhez |
elative | farmerből | farmerekből |
delative | farmerről | farmerekről |
ablative | farmertől | farmerektől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
farmeré | farmereké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
farmeréi | farmerekéi |
Possessive forms of farmer | ||
---|---|---|
possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | farmerem | farmereim |
2nd person sing. | farmered | farmereid |
3rd person sing. | farmere | farmerei |
1st person plural | farmerünk | farmereink |
2nd person plural | farmeretek | farmereitek |
3rd person plural | farmerük | farmereik |
See also
Etymology 2
Shortening of farmeröltözet or farmernadrág.
Adjective
farmer (not comparable)
Declension
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
---|---|---|
singular | plural | |
nominative | farmer | farmerek |
accusative | farmert | farmereket |
dative | farmernek | farmereknek |
instrumental | farmerrel | farmerekkel |
causal-final | farmerért | farmerekért |
translative | farmerré | farmerekké |
terminative | farmerig | farmerekig |
essive-formal | farmerként | farmerekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | farmerben | farmerekben |
superessive | farmeren | farmereken |
adessive | farmernél | farmereknél |
illative | farmerbe | farmerekbe |
sublative | farmerre | farmerekre |
allative | farmerhez | farmerekhez |
elative | farmerből | farmerekből |
delative | farmerről | farmerekről |
ablative | farmertől | farmerektől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
farmeré | farmereké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
farmeréi | farmerekéi |
Noun
farmer (plural farmerek)
Declension
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
---|---|---|
singular | plural | |
nominative | farmer | farmerek |
accusative | farmert | farmereket |
dative | farmernek | farmereknek |
instrumental | farmerrel | farmerekkel |
causal-final | farmerért | farmerekért |
translative | farmerré | farmerekké |
terminative | farmerig | farmerekig |
essive-formal | farmerként | farmerekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | farmerben | farmerekben |
superessive | farmeren | farmereken |
adessive | farmernél | farmereknél |
illative | farmerbe | farmerekbe |
sublative | farmerre | farmerekre |
allative | farmerhez | farmerekhez |
elative | farmerből | farmerekből |
delative | farmerről | farmerekről |
ablative | farmertől | farmerektől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
farmeré | farmereké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
farmeréi | farmerekéi |
Possessive forms of farmer | ||
---|---|---|
possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | farmerem | farmereim |
2nd person sing. | farmered | farmereid |
3rd person sing. | farmere | farmerei |
1st person plural | farmerünk | farmereink |
2nd person plural | farmeretek | farmereitek |
3rd person plural | farmerük | farmereik |
Derived terms
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
Noun
fȁrmer m (Cyrillic spelling фа̏рмер)
Declension
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Medieval Latin
- English terms inherited from Old English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms suffixed with -er
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/ɑː(ɹ)mə(ɹ)
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- English terms with historical senses
- English terms with usage examples
- en:Mining
- English agent nouns
- en:Occupations
- en:People
- Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Hungarian terms derived from German
- Hungarian terms derived from French
- Hungarian terms derived from Old French
- Hungarian terms derived from Medieval Latin
- Hungarian terms derived from Old English
- Hungarian lemmas
- Hungarian nouns
- Hungarian adjectives
- Hungarian uncomparable adjectives
- hu:Clothing
- hu:Occupations
- Serbo-Croatian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian nouns
- Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns