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Latin
Etymology
From fōrma (“shape, mould”) + -āceus (“relational adjective suffix”). Said to be current in Africa and Spain, and is continued in Spanish. Isidore cites the substantivised fōrmācium, with fōrmātum as a synonym.[1] Compare Spanish horma (“dry stone wall”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
fōrmāceus (feminine fōrmācea, neuter fōrmāceum); first/second-declension adjective
- (hapax) made using a form or mould, moulded
Pliny,
Natural History 35.169.2:
- nōn in Āfricā Hispāniāque ē terrā parietēs, quōs appellant fōrmāceōs, quoniam in fōrmā circumdatīs duābus utrimque tabulīs inferciuntur vērius quam īnstruuntur, aevīs dūrant ?
- don't they last for ages, the earthen walls in Africa and Spain that they call moulded because they're stuffed in a mould, with two boards on either side, rather than constructed ?
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “formaceus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- formaceus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ The Etymologies or The Origins, XV.9.5