forment

English

Verb

forment

1. Misspelling of foment.

Noun

forment

1. Misspelling of formant.

French

Verb

forment

1. third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of former

Anagrams

• froment

Friulian

Noun

forment m (plural forments)

1. wheat

Latin

Verb

fōrment

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of fōrmō

Old French

Alternative forms

• fortement (appeared when forte replaced fort as the feminine of fort)
• fortment

Etymology

fort +‎ -ment, with the loss of the medial t.

Adverb

forment

1. strongly; powerfully
2. highly; extremely, sorely
3. seriously; greatly

References

• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “forment”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.
• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “fortement”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.
• “forment”, in Anglo-Norman Dictionary, 2nd edition, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: Aberystwyth University, 2001–2026.