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Esperanto
Verb
formus
- conditional of formi
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *formos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰermos, from *gʷʰer- (“warm, hot”).[1]
Cognates include Sanskrit घर्म (gharma), Old Armenian ջերմ (ǰerm), Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós), Proto-Slavic *gorěti, Welsh gwres, and Old English wearm (English warm).
Pronunciation
Adjective
formus (feminine forma, neuter formum); first/second-declension adjective
- (archaic) warm
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
References
- “formus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- formus 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)
- formus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “formus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 235