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English
Etymology
Borrowed from German Formans, from Latin elementum fōrmāns (“forming element”), with fōrmāns being the present participle of fōrmō (“to shape; to form; to fashion”). Doublet of formant.
Noun
formans (plural formantia)
- (linguistic morphology) Synonym of formative (“language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function”).
1968, Karl H. Menges, The Turkic Languages and Peoples, page 157:These facts then clearly evidence such elements as enclitical particles which exercise certain morphological and/or syntactical functions, but which have not yet developed into actual suffixes obliged to conform to sound-harmony and the general accentuation pattern. Some elements of this type are the formantia of the cas. compar. in -däg, and the cas. aequat. (prosecut., mensurat., terminat.) in -ča/-čä in the nominal category, and the formans of the negative aspect in -ma-/-mä- in the verbal category.
2006, Kim McCone, The Origins and Development of the Insular Celtic Verbal Complex, page 136:In Cowgill’s […] convincing opinion the basic formans of this PIE mediopassive was an -o(-) originally added to endings identical with those of the perfect (minus -e where applicable; […]), which only had a single set of endings undifferentiated as to active/middle in PIE.
2011, Joachim Grzega, “Compounding from an Onomasiological Perspective” (chapter 11), in The Oxford Handbook of Compounding, page 221:After the selection of an onomasiological base and an onomasiological mark on the semantic level of the word-formation process, the speaker selects a word-formation base and a formans from an inventory of productive word-formation categories, classes, and subtypes on the formal level.
Translations
French
Etymology
Borrowed from German Formans. Doublet of formant.
Pronunciation
Noun
formans m (plural formans)
- (linguistic morphology) Synonym of formant (“formative; language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function”)
Latin
Etymology
Present participle of fōrmō.
Participle
fōrmāns (genitive fōrmantis); third-declension one-termination participle
- shaping, forming, fashioning
Declension
Third-declension participle.
1When used purely as an adjective.
Descendants