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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Lucretius|origins=la fōrma}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈfoːr.moː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈfɔr.mo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''fōrmō''' (present infinitive fōrmāre, perfect active fōrmāvī, supine fōrmātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[fōrma]] “form, shape” with the verb suffix [[-ō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Some connect ⟨fōrma⟩ with [[grc|μορφή|tr=morphḗ|t=shape]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Lucretius, of giving a form, and Cicero uses it of moulding material.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Lucretius 96–55 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to shape, mould material, as Cicero's ''māteriam fingere et fōrmāre'', and to give definite shape, as in Catullus, to give a form or guise, to arrange the limbs, transform, and set in order.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) From Cicero it meant to adapt speech, express in words, and to mould a person's character, train, as in Horace, to dispose, and in Ovid to instruct.^(OLD 2012) It meant to produce, form, articulate words, conceive an idea, develop a habit, depict, and of nature to constitute.^(OLD 2012) In Cicero it meant to compose a document, and in Quintilian's grammar to inflect and to form words.^(OLD 2012) Döderlein explains that ''ērudīre'' and ''fōrmāre'' are education as an ideal good.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to form, fashion, train, guide.^(Stelten 1995) It survives in Italian ''formare'', and [[en|form]] goes back to ''fōrma'' through Old French.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of giving form.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of moulding and of training.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it of shaping a life.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it in grammar.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To shape, mould, fashion.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To give a form; to arrange; to transform.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To adapt; to express.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To train, educate; to direct; to instruct.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To produce, [[m|en|form]]; to conceive; to develop.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To depict.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To compose.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(grammar)'' To inflect; to derive.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[biformātus]]

+ * [[cōnfōrmō]]

+ * [[dēfōrmō]]

+ * [[formabilis]]

+ * [[fōrmāmentum]]

+ * [[fōrmātiō]]

+ * [[fōrmātor]]

+ * [[formatrix]]

+ * [[formātūra]]

+ * [[īnfōrmō]]

+ * [[performo]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fōrma]]

+ * [[fōrmula]]

+ * [[en|form]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}