formula

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See also: fórmula, formulá, formulă, and formuła

English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin formula (“a small pattern or mold, form, rule, principle, method, formula”), diminutive of forma (“a form”); see form.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

formula (plural formulae or formulas or formulæ)

  1. (mathematics) Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically.
    Synonym: mathematical formula
    is a formula for finding the roots of the quadratic equation ax2 + bx + c = 0.
    Hyponyms: Brahmagupta's formula, Bretschneider's formula, Cauchy's integral formula, Cayley's formula, De Moivre's formula, Euler's formula, Faulhaber's formula, Heron's formula, haversine formula, Jacobi's formula, Legendre's formula, Stirling's formula, Vieta's formulas, Viète's formula
  2. (chemistry) A symbolic expression of the structure of a compound.
    Synonym: chemical formula
    H2O is the formula for water.
  3. A plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result.
    The company's winning formula includes excellent service and quality products.
    • 2017 March 14, Stuart James, “Leicester stun Sevilla to reach last eight after Kasper Schmeichel save”, in the Guardian‎[1]:
      Shakespeare has gone back to the formula of last season, by encouraging his players to press high up the pitch and restoring Shinji Okazaki to the starting XI to scurry around between midfield and attack.
    • 2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 42:
      Delays, large and small, have a huge variety of causes, so there is no magic formula for preventing them.
  4. A formulation; a prescription; a mixture or solution made in a prescribed manner; the identity and quantities of ingredients of such a mixture.
    The formula of the rocket fuel has not been revealed.
  5. (especially religion) A formal statement of doctrine.
    • 2004, Thomas Fisch, editor, Primary Readings on the Eucharist, Liturgical Press, →ISBN, footnote, page 34:
      The extract from the Missal of Constance, which was printed before the editio princeps […] does not contain the formulae for Advent, Sundays after Epiphany, Lent and the Sundays after Easter and Pentecost; […]
  6. (countable, uncountable) Ellipsis of infant formula; drink given to babies to substitute for mother's milk.
    • 2018, Kristin Lawless, Formerly known as food, →ISBN:
      Many women advocate for formula, insisting that women who advocate breast-feeding have become self-righteous “lactavists,” as one writer puts it.
  7. (logic) A syntactic expression of a proposition, built up from quantifiers, logical connectives, variables, relation and operation symbols, and, depending on the type of logic, possibly other operators such as modal, temporal, deontic or epistemic ones.
    Hyponym: sentence

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Related terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Irish: foirmle
  • Scottish Gaelic: foirmle

Translations[edit]

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Catalan[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

formula

  1. third-person singular present indicative form of formular
  2. second-person singular imperative form of formular

Crimean Tatar[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin formula (“small form”), from forma (“form”).

Noun[edit]

formula

  1. formula

Declension[edit]

Declension of formula
nominative formula
genitive formulanıñ
dative formulağa
accusative formulanı
locative formulada
ablative formuladan

References[edit]

  • Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎[2], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

Finnish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English formula.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈformulɑ/, [ˈfo̞rmulɑ]
  • Rhymes: -ormulɑ
  • Syllabification(key): for‧mu‧la

Noun[edit]

formula

  1. (motor racing) a Formula One racing car

Declension[edit]

Inflection of formula (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative formula formulat
genitive formulan formuloiden
formuloitten
partitive formulaa formuloita
illative formulaan formuloihin
singular plural
nominative formula formulat
accusative nom. formula formulat
gen. formulan
genitive formulan formuloiden
formuloitten
formulainrare
partitive formulaa formuloita
inessive formulassa formuloissa
elative formulasta formuloista
illative formulaan formuloihin
adessive formulalla formuloilla
ablative formulalta formuloilta
allative formulalle formuloille
essive formulana formuloina
translative formulaksi formuloiksi
instructive — formuloin
abessive formulatta formuloitta
comitative — formuloineen
Possessive forms of formula (type kulkija)
possessor singular plural
1st person formulani formulamme
2nd person formulasi formulanne
3rd person formulansa

French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

formula

  1. third-person singular past historic of formuler

Hungarian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin formula (“a small pattern or mold, form, rule, principle, method, formula”), diminutive of forma (“a form”).[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈformulɒ]
  • Hyphenation: for‧mu‧la
  • Rhymes: -lɒ

Noun[edit]

formula (plural formulák)

  1. formula (an established form of words for use in a procedure)
  2. formula (a plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result)
  3. (archaic) spell, charm, incantation (words or a formula supposed to have magical powers)

Declension[edit]

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative formula formulák
accusative formulát formulákat
dative formulának formuláknak
instrumental formulával formulákkal
causal-final formuláért formulákért
translative formulává formulákká
terminative formuláig formulákig
essive-formal formulaként formulákként
essive-modal — —
inessive formulában formulákban
superessive formulán formulákon
adessive formulánál formuláknál
illative formulába formulákba
sublative formulára formulákra
allative formulához formulákhoz
elative formulából formulákból
delative formuláról formulákról
ablative formulától formuláktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		formuláé formuláké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		formuláéi formulákéi
Possessive forms of formula
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. formulám formuláim
2nd person sing. formulád formuláid
3rd person sing. formulája formulái
1st person plural formulánk formuláink
2nd person plural formulátok formuláitok
3rd person plural formulájuk formuláik

References[edit]

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Indonesian[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Learned borrowing from Latin fōrmula.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [fɔrˈmula]
  • Hyphenation: for‧mu‧la

Noun[edit]

formula (first-person possessive formulaku, second-person possessive formulamu, third-person possessive formulanya)

  1. formula
    Synonym: rumus

Derived terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

Italian[edit]

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Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from Latin formula.

Noun[edit]

formula f (plural formule)

  1. (mathematics, chemistry) formula
Derived terms[edit]
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Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

formula

  1. inflection of formulare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

References[edit]

  1. ^ formula in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams[edit]

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Diminutive, from fōrma +‎ -ulus.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

fōrmula f (genitive fōrmulae); first declension

  1. shape, outline
  2. (fine) form; beauty
  3. pattern, mould; paradigm
  4. form, rule, method, formula
  5. lawsuit, action

Declension[edit]

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fōrmula fōrmulae
Genitive fōrmulae fōrmulārum
Dative fōrmulae fōrmulīs
Accusative fōrmulam fōrmulās
Ablative fōrmulā fōrmulīs
Vocative fōrmula fōrmulae

Descendants[edit]

Descendants

References[edit]

  • “formula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “formula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • formula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • “formula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • formula in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  • “formula”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Occitan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin fōrmula.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

formula f (plural formulas)

  1. (mathematics) formula (any mathematical rule expressed symbolically)
  2. (chemistry) formula (a symbolic expression of the structure of a compound)
  3. form (a blank document or template to be filled in by the user)

Portuguese[edit]

Verb[edit]

formula

  1. inflection of formular:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From French formuler.

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

a formula (third-person singular present formulează, past participle formulat) 1st conj.

  1. to formulate
Conjugation[edit]
    conjugation of formula (first conjugation, -ez- infix)
infinitive a formula
gerund formulând
past participle formulat
number singular plural
person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present formulez formulezi formulează formulăm formulați formulează
imperfect formulam formulai formula formulam formulați formulau
simple perfect formulai formulași formulă formularăm formularăți formulară
pluperfect formulasem formulaseși formulase formulaserăm formulaserăți formulaseră
subjunctive eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present să formulez să formulezi să formuleze să formulăm să formulați să formuleze
imperative — tu — — voi —
affirmative formulează formulați
negative nu formula nu formulați

Etymology 2[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

formula f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of formulă

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin formula.

Noun[edit]

fȏrmula f (Cyrillic spelling фо̑рмула)

  1. (mathematics, chemistry, logic) formula
  2. rule

Declension[edit]

Declension of formula
singular plural
nominative formula formule
genitive formule formula
dative formuli formulama
accusative formulu formule
vocative formulo formule
locative formuli formulama
instrumental formulom formulama

Slovak[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

formula f (genitive singular formuly, nominative plural formuly, genitive plural formúl, declension pattern of žena)

  1. formula

Declension[edit]

Declension of formula
singular plural
nominative formula formuly
genitive formuly formúl
dative formule formulám
accusative formulu formuly
locative formule formulách
instrumental formulou formulami

Further reading[edit]

  • formula in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Spanish[edit]

Verb[edit]

formula

  1. inflection of formular:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
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