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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin formula (“a small pattern or mold, form, rule, principle, method, formula”), diminutive of forma (“a form”); see form.
Pronunciation
Noun
formula (countable and uncountable, plural formulae or formulas or formulæ)
- (mathematics) Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically.
- Synonym: mathematical formula
- is a formula for finding the roots of the quadratic equation ax2 + bx + c = 0.
- Hyponyms: Brahmagupta's formula, Bretschneider's formula, Cauchy's integral formula, Cayley's formula, De Moivre's formula, Euler's formula, Faulhaber's formula, Heron's formula, haversine formula, Jacobi's formula, Legendre's formula, Stirling's formula, Vieta's formulas, Viète's formula
- (chemistry) A symbolic expression of the structure of a compound.
- Synonym: chemical formula
H2O is the formula for water.
- 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: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.
- 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.
- (especially religion) A formal statement of doctrine.
2004, Thomas Fisch, editor, Primary Readings on the Eucharist, Liturgical Press, →ISBN, footnote, page 34:The extract from the Missal of Constance, which was printed before the editio princeps […] does not contain the formulae for Advent, Sundays after Epiphany, Lent and the Sundays after Easter and Pentecost; […]
- (countable, uncountable) Ellipsis of infant formula; drink given to babies to substitute for mother's milk.
2018, Kristin Lawless, Formerly known as food, →ISBN:Many women advocate for formula, insisting that women who advocate breast-feeding have become self-righteous “lactavists,” as one writer puts it.
- (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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Translations
in mathematics
- Albanian: formulë (sq) f
- Amharic: ቀመር (ḳämär)
- Arabic: صِيغَة f (ṣīḡa)
- Armenian: բանաձև (hy) (banajew)
- Asturian: fórmula f
- Azerbaijani: formula, düstur (az)
- Belarusian: фо́рмула f (fórmula)
- Bengali: সূত্র (bn) (śutro)
- Bulgarian: фо́рмула (bg) f (fórmula)
- Burmese: ပုံသေနည်း (my) (pumsenany:)
- Catalan: fórmula (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 公式 (gung1 sik1)
- Hokkien: 公式 (zh-min-nan) (kong-sek)
- Mandarin: 公式 (zh) (gōngshì)
- Czech: formule (cs) f, vzorec (cs) m
- Danish: formel c
- Dutch: formule (nl) f
- Esperanto: formulo
- Estonian: valem (et)
- Farefare: formula
- Finnish: kaava (fi)
- French: formule (fr) f
- Galician: fórmula (gl) f
- Georgian: ფორმულა (pormula)
- German: Formel (de) f
- Greek: τύπος (el) m (týpos)
- Hebrew: נוסחה \ נֻסְחָה f (nuskhá)
- Hindi: सूत्र (hi) m (sūtra), फ़ॉरमूला m (fŏrmūlā)
- Hungarian: képlet (hu)
- Icelandic: formúla f
- Indonesian: rumus (id)
- Irish: foirmle f
- Italian: formula (it) f
- Japanese: 公式 (ja) (こうしき, kōshiki), 定式 (ていしき, teishiki)
- Kazakh: формула (formula)
- Khmer: រូបមន្ត (ruupmŭən)
- Korean: 공식(公式) (ko) (gongsik)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: formûl (ku)
- Kyrgyz: формула (ky) (formula)
- Lao: ສູດ (sūt)
- Latvian: formula f
- Lithuanian: formulė f
- Macedonian: формула f (formula)
- Malay: rumus
- Maori: ture tātai, tikanga tātai
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: томъёо (tomʺjoo), томөео (tomöjeo)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: formel (no) m
- Nynorsk: formel m
- Occitan: formula (oc) f
- Pashto: فارمول (ps) m (fārmul), فورمول (ps) m (formul)
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: فُرْمول (fa) (formul)
- Polish: wzór (pl) m
- Portuguese: fórmula (pt) f
- Romanian: formulă (ro) f
- Russian: фо́рмула (ru) f (fórmula)
- Scottish Gaelic: foirmle f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: фо̑рмула f
- Roman: fȏrmula (sh) f
- Sinhalese: සූත්රය (sūtraya)
- Slovak: vzorec m, formula f
- Slovene: formula f
- Spanish: fórmula (es) f
- Swedish: formel (sv) c
- Tagalog: sanyo
- Tajik: формула (formula)
- Thai: สูตร (th) (sùut)
- Turkish: formül (tr)
- Turkmen: formula
- Ukrainian: фо́рмула f (fórmula)
- Urdu: کُلِیَہ m (kuliya), فارْمُولا m (fārmūlā), قاعِدَہ (ur) m (qā'ida)
- Uyghur: فورمۇلا (formula)
- Uzbek: formula (uz)
- Vietnamese: công thức (vi)
- Welsh: fformiwla (cy) f
- Yiddish: פֿאָרמולע f (formule)
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in chemistry
- Arabic: صِيغَة f (ṣīḡa)
- Armenian: բանաձև (hy) (banajew)
- Asturian: fórmula f
- Belarusian: фо́рмула f (fórmula)
- Bulgarian: фо́рмула (bg) f (fórmula)
- Catalan: fórmula (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 化學式/化学式 (faa3 hok6 sik1)
- Mandarin: 化學式/化学式 (zh) (huàxuéshì)
- Czech: vzorec (cs) m, formule (cs) f
- Dutch: formule (nl) f
- Estonian: valem (et)
- Farefare: formula
- Finnish: kaava (fi)
- French: formule (fr) f
- Galician: fórmula (gl) f
- Georgian: ფორმულა (pormula)
- German: Formel (de) f
- Greek: τύπος (el) m (týpos)
- Hebrew: נוסחא f
- Hungarian: képlet (hu)
- Indonesian: rumus (id)
- Irish: foirmle f
- Italian: formula (it) f
- Japanese: 公式 (ja) (こうしき, kōshiki), 定式 (ていしき, teishiki), 化学式 (ja) (かがくしき, kagakushiki)
- Khmer: រូបមន្តគីមី (ruupmŭən kiimii)
- Korean: 공식(公式) (ko) (gongsik), 화학식(化學式) (hwahaksik)
- Latvian: formula f
- Macedonian: формула f (formula)
- Maori: tātai matū
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: formel (no) m
- Nynorsk: formel m
- Occitan: formula (oc) f
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: فُرْمول (fa) (formul)
- Polish: wzór (pl) m, wzór chemiczny m
- Portuguese: fórmula (pt) f
- Romanian: formulă (ro) f, formulă chimică f
- Russian: фо́рмула (ru) f (fórmula)
- Scottish Gaelic: foirmle f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: фо̑рмула f
- Roman: fȏrmula (sh) f
- Slovak: vzorec m
- Slovene: formula f
- Spanish: fórmula (es) f
- Swedish: formel (sv) c
- Tagalog: sanyo
- Thai: สูตร (th) (sùut), สูตรเคมี (th) (sùut-kee-mii)
- Turkish: formül (tr)
- Ukrainian: фо́рмула f (fórmula)
- Welsh: fformiwla (cy) f
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plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result
drink given to babies
- Armenian: կաթնախառնուրդներ (katʻnaxaṙnurdner)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 配方奶粉 (pui3 fong1 naai5 fan2)
- Mandarin: 嬰兒配方奶粉/婴儿配方奶粉 (yīng'ér pèifāng nǎifěn)
- Dutch: zuigelingenvoeding f, kindervoeding f
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: äidinmaidonvastike (fi)
- French: aliment lacté pour nourrissons m, préparation pour nourrissons f, lait maternisé (fr) m
- German: Säuglingsnahrung (de) f, Säuglingsanfangsnahrung f, Säuglingsformulierung f
- Hindi: बेबी फार्मूला (bebī phārmūlā)
- Hungarian: tápszer (hu), csecsemőtápszer, bébiétel (hu), bébitápszer
- Italian: latte artificiale m, formula per lattanti f
- Russian: де́тское пита́ние n (détskoje pitánije), де́тская смесь f (détskaja smesʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Roman: dečija mlečna hrana f, dječja mliječna hrana f, adaptirano mleko n, adaptirano mlijeko n
- Spanish: preparado para lactantes m, leche maternizada f, fórmula infantil f
- Tamil: குழந்தை சூத்திரம் (kuḻantai cūttiram)
- Vietnamese: sữa công thức
- Welsh: fformiwla (cy) f
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logic: syntactic expression of a proposition
Further reading
- “formula”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “formula”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- Formula in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Catalan
Pronunciation
Verb
formula
- inflection of formular:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Crimean Tatar
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin formula (“small form”), from forma (“form”).
Noun
formula
- formula
Declension
Declension of formula
nominative
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formula
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genitive
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formulanıñ
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dative
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formulağa
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accusative
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formulanı
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locative
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formulada
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ablative
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formuladan
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References
- Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN
Finnish
Etymology
From English formula.
Pronunciation
Noun
formula
- (motor racing) a Formula One racing car
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
French
Pronunciation
Verb
formula
- third-person singular past historic of formuler
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin formula (“a small pattern or mold, form, rule, principle, method, formula”), diminutive of forma (“a form”).
Pronunciation
Noun
formula (plural formulák)
- formula (an established form of words for use in a procedure)
- formula (a plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result)
- (archaic) spell, charm, incantation (words or a formula supposed to have magical powers)
Declension
References
Indonesian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin fōrmula.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: for‧mu‧la
Noun
formula (first-person possessive formulaku, second-person possessive formulamu, third-person possessive formulanya)
- formula
- Synonym: rumus
Derived terms
Further reading
Italian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin formula.
Noun
formula f (plural formule)
- (mathematics, chemistry) formula
Derived terms
Related terms
Etymology 2
Verb
formula
- inflection of formulare:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
References
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From fōrma + -ula.
Pronunciation
Noun
fōrmula f (genitive fōrmulae); first declension
- shape, outline
- (fine) form; beauty
- pattern, mould; paradigm
- form, rule, method, formula
- lawsuit, action
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “formula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “formula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- formula 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)
- “formula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- formula in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “formula”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Occitan
Etymology
From Latin fōrmula.
Pronunciation
Noun
formula f (plural formulas)
- (mathematics) formula (any mathematical rule expressed symbolically)
- (chemistry) formula (a symbolic expression of the structure of a compound)
- form (a blank document or template to be filled in by the user)
Portuguese
Verb
formula
- inflection of formular:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Romanian
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French formuler.
Pronunciation
Verb
a formula (third-person singular present formulează, past participle formulat) 1st conj.
- to formulate
Conjugation
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
formula f
- definite nominative/accusative singular of formulă
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin formula.
Noun
fȏrmula f (Cyrillic spelling фо̑рмула)
- (mathematics, chemistry, logic) formula
- rule
Declension
Slovak
Pronunciation
Noun
formula f (declension pattern of žena)
- formula
Declension
Further reading
- “formula”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Spanish
Verb
formula
- inflection of formular:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative