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Latin
Etymology
By surface analysis, fōrma (“mould”) + -āticum (noun-forming suffix). Has also been suggested to derive from an ellipsis of * "mould-cheese", although fōrmāticus is not attested as an adjective.
Attested in the eighth-century Reichenau Glossary and the Capitulary of Charlemagne (802 CE).[1]
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Displaced the Classical Latin synonym cāseus in Gallo-Romance, though apparently at a relatively late date, considering that the latter has left various reflexes[2] such as the French casier (“cheese-basket”). On the other hand, the early Breton borrowing fourondec shows that fōrmāticum arose prior to the syncope of the penultimate vowel in Gallo-Romance, a change which would have occurred at some point during the eighth or ninth century CE.[3]
Compare the single occurrence of fōrmulae in the sense of "cheese-moulds" in Late Latin[4] and the several occurrences of its diminutive fōrmella.[5]
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Noun
fōrmāticum n (genitive fōrmāticī); second declension (Early Medieval Latin)
- cheese
- Synonym: cāseus (Classical)
Inflection
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
References
- ^ Blaise, Albert (1975) “formaticum (-ticus, forma, formagium)”, in Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs du moyen-âge: lexicon latinitatis medii aevi (Corpus christianorum) (overall work in Latin and French), Turnhout: Brepols, page 396.
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “formaticum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 719
- ^ Pope, Mildred K. 1934. From Latin to French. Manchester University Press. §165.1.
- ^ Palladius, Opus Agriculturae 6.9.2
- ^ formella 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)
- ^ Sorbello, Albano. 1906–7. L'Archiginnasio. Bollettino della Biblioteca comunale di Bologna. Vol. I–II. 178.