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Latin
Etymology
First attested in an index in 1651 and in running text in 1806; formed as hāmus (“hook”) + fōrma (“shape”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
hāmifōrmis (neuter hāmifōrme); third-declension two-termination adjective
- (New Latin) hook-shaped, hamiform
- 1651, Marco Aurelio Severino, Vipera Pythia, “Index Rerum”, I
1806, Annales du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, IX, page 267:Appendix in singulâ valvâ simplex, inter alas eidem carinæ suprà adnata, infrà libera et à carinâ discedens, complanata septi æmula, sed valvâ angustior (undè loculi non omninò distincti), incurvata hamiformis basi bidentata dentibus latere exteriore seminiferis.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Descendants