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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.
- Alexander Pope
- Ye vigorous swains! while youth ferments your blood.
- Alexander Pope
Translations[edit]
to react using fermentation
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to cause unrest
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Noun[edit]
ferment (plural ferments)
- Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.
- A state of agitation or of turbulent change.
- Rogers
- Subdue and cool the ferment of desire.
- Walpole
- 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.
- Rogers
- A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
- Thomson
- Down to the lowest lees the ferment ran.
- Thomson
- 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]
- “ferment” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.
- ferment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Fermentation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Verb[edit]
ferment