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Verb
deformis
- second-person singular present subjunctive of deformar
Latin
Etymology
From dē- (“from, away from”) + fōrma (“form”) + -is.
Pronunciation
Adjective
dēfōrmis (neuter dēfōrme, comparative dēfōrmior, superlative dēfōrmissimus); third-declension two-termination adjective
- Departing physically from the correct shape; deformed, ugly, misshapen, malformed.
- Departing morally from the correct quality; unbecoming; shameful, disgraceful, base.
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
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References
- “deformis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “deformis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- deformis 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)
- deformis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.