forme

See also: -forme, formé, formě, and formę

English

Noun

forme (plural formes)

1. Obsolete form of form.
   • Sir Thomas Browne

     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 […]

2. (historical, printing) One side of a sheet, comprising four quarto pages or two folio pages.
   • 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

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Asturian

Verb

(deprecated template usage) forme

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of formar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of formar

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔrmə/, [ˈfɒːmə]

Etymology 1

See form (“shape, form”).

Noun

forme c

1. (deprecated template usage) 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)

1. shape
2. clay
3. mould
4. form, frame

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French

Etymology

From Old French forme, borrowed from Latin fōrma, possibly cognate with Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔʁm/

• audio:

  (file)

Noun

forme f (plural formes)

1. shape (geometrical representation)
2. shape (physical appearance)
3. form

Related terms

• difforme
• formel
• former
• formule
  • formulaire
• informe

Further reading

• “forme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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German

Verb

forme

1. (deprecated template usage) First-person singular present of formen.
2. (deprecated template usage) First-person singular subjunctive I of formen.
3. (deprecated template usage) Third-person singular subjunctive I of formen.
4. (deprecated template usage) Imperative singular of formen.

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Italian

Noun

forme f pl

1. plural of forma

Anagrams

• fermo, fermò, fremo

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) forme

1. vocative masculine singular of formus

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Norman

Etymology

From Old French forme, borrowed from Latin forma.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Jersey):

  (file)

Noun

forme f (plural formes)

1. (Jersey) form

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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)

1. to form
2. to shape

Derived terms

• formbar
• omforme

Related terms

• form (noun)

References

• “forme” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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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)

1. to form
2. to shape

Derived terms

• formbar

Related terms

• form (noun)
• -forma

References

• “forme” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Portuguese

Verb

forme

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈforme]

Noun

forme f pl

1. plural of formă

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Spanish

Verb

forme

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of formar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of formar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of formar.