ferment
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French ferment, from Latin fermentare (“to leaven, ferment”), from fermentum (“substance causing fermentation”), from fervere (“to boil, seethe”). See also fervent.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (verb):
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fəˈmɛnt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /fɚˈmɛnt/
- (noun):
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɜːmɛnt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɝmɛnt/
Verb[edit]
ferment (third-person singular simple present ferments, present participle fermenting, simple past and past participle fermented)
- To react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew.
- To stir up, agitate, cause unrest or excitement in.
- 1713, Alexander Pope, “Windsor-Forest. […]”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, OCLC 43265629:
- Ye vigorous swains! while youth ferments your blood.
- 1726, James Thomson, “Winter”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, OCLC 642619686, lines 10–14, page 165:
- Pleas'd have I wander'd thro' your rough domain; / Trod the pure virgin-ſnows, myſelf as pure; / Heard the winds roar, and the big torrent burſt; / Or ſeen the deep fermenting tempeſt brew'd, / In the grim evening ſky.
Translations[edit]
to react using fermentation
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to cause unrest
Noun[edit]
ferment (plural ferments)
- Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.
- A state of agitation or of turbulent change.
- a. 1729, John Rogers, The Difficulties of Obtaining Salvation
- Subdue and cool the ferment of desire.
- 14 November, 1770, Junius, letter to the Right Honourable Lord Mansfield
- The nation is in a ferment.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 104
- Clad in a Persian-Renaissance gown and a widow's tiara of white batiste, Mrs Thoroughfare, in all the ferment of a Marriage-Christening, left her chamber on vapoury autumn day and descending a few stairs, and climbing a few others, knocked a trifle brusquely at her son's wife's door.
- a. 1729, John Rogers, The Difficulties of Obtaining Salvation
- A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
- 1748, James Thomson, “Canto II”, in The Castle of Indolence: […], London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 54163524, stanza XXX, page 56:
- A Rage of Pleaſure madden'd every Breaſt, / Down to the loweſt Lees the Ferment ran: [...]
- A catalyst.
Translations[edit]
substance causing fermentation
state of agitation
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gentle internal movement
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catalyst
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “ferment”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
- ferment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Fermentation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Verb[edit]
ferment
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French ferment, from Latin fermentum.
Noun[edit]
ferment m (plural fermenți)
Declension[edit]
Declension of ferment
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) ferment | fermentul | (niște) fermenți | fermenții |
| genitive/dative | (unui) ferment | fermentului | (unor) fermenți | fermenților |
| vocative | fermentule | fermenților | ||
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