formula

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See also: fórmula, formulá, and formulă

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.

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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.
  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. A formal statement of doctrine, as in religion.
  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, page 85:
      Before the early 1900s, mothers who couldn't breast-feed for medical reasons didn't have the option of infant formula and often used wet nurses, or women who were employed to breast-feed children other than their own.
  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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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]

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]

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

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

Italian[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin formula.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

formula f (plural formule)

  1. (mathematics, chemistry) formula

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Verb[edit]

formula

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

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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Diminutive, from fōrma +‎ -ulus.

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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

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Portuguese[edit]

Verb[edit]

formula

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

Romanian[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

Spanish[edit]

Verb[edit]

formula

  1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of formular.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of formular.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of formular.
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