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farm
English
Pronunciation
- (US, Canada) enPR: färm, IPA(key): /f???m/
- (UK) IPA(key): /f??m/
- Rhymes: -??(?)m
Etymology 1
From Middle English ferme, farme (“rent, revenue, produce, factor, stewardship, meal, feast”), from Anglo-Norman ferme (“rent, lease, farm”), from Medieval Latin ferma, firma, from Old English feorm, fearm, farm (“provision, food, supplies, provisions supplied by a tenant or vassal to his lord, rent, possessions, stores, feast, entertainment, haven”), from Proto-Germanic *ferm? (“means of living, subsistence”), from Proto-Germanic *ferhw?, *ferhuz (“life force, body, being”), from Proto-Indo-European *perk?- (“life, force, strength, tree”).
Cognate with Scots ferm (“rent, farm”). Related also to Old English feorh (“life, spirit”), Old High German ferah (“life, body, being”), Icelandic fjör (“life, vitality, vigour, animation”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (fair?us, “the world”). Compare also Old English feormeh?m (“farm”), feormere (“purveyor, grocer”).
Old English feorm is the origin of Medieval Latin ferma, firma (“farm", also "feast”) (whence also Old French ferme, Occitan ferma), instead of the historically assumed derivation from unrelated Latin firma (“firm, solid”), which shares the same form. The sense of "rent, fixed payment", which was already present in the Old English word, may have been further strengthened due to resemblance to Latin firmitas (“security, surety”). Additionally, Old French ferme continued to shape the development of the English word throughout the Middle English period.
Alternative forms
- feorm (historical)
- ferme (obsolete)
Noun
farm (plural farms)
- A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.
- A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation.
- (usually in combination) A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures
- (computing) A group of coordinated servers.
- (obsolete) Food; provisions; a meal.
- (obsolete) A banquet; feast.
- (obsolete) A fixed yearly amount (food, provisions, money, etc.) payable as rent or tax.
- 1642, tr. J. Perkins, Profitable Bk. (new ed.) xi. §751. 329:
- If a man be bounden unto 1.s. in 100.l.£ to grant unto him the rent and farme of such a Mill.
- 1700, J. Tyrrell, Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 814:
- All..Tythings shall stand at the old Farm, without any Increase.
- 1767, W. Blackstone, Comm. Laws Eng. II. 320:
- The most usual and customary feorm or rent..must be reserved yearly on such lease.
- 1642, tr. J. Perkins, Profitable Bk. (new ed.) xi. §751. 329:
- (historical) A fixed yearly sum accepted from a person as a composition for taxes or other moneys which he is empowered to collect; also, a fixed charge imposed on a town, county, etc., in respect of a tax or taxes to be collected within its limits.
- 1876, E. A. Freeman, Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiv. 439:
- He [the Sheriff] paid into the Exchequer the fixed yearly sum which formed the farm of the shire.
- 1876, E. A. Freeman, Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiv. 439:
- (historical) The letting-out of public revenue to a ‘farmer’; the privilege of farming a tax or taxes.
- 1885, Edwards in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 580:
- The first farm of postal income was made in 1672.
- 1885, Edwards in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 580:
- The body of farmers of public revenues.
- 1786, T. Jefferson, Writings (1859) I. 568:
- They despair of a suppression of the Farm.
- 1786, T. Jefferson, Writings (1859) I. 568:
- The condition of being let at a fixed rent; lease; a lease.
- a1599, Spenser, View State Ireland in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) 58:
- It is a great willfullnes in any such Land-lord to refuse to make any longer farmes unto their Tennants.
- 1647, N. Bacon, Hist. Disc. Govt. 75:
- Thence the Leases so made were called Feormes or Farmes, which word signifieth Victuals.
- 1818, W. Cruise, Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) IV. 68:
- The words demise, lease, and to farm let, are the proper ones to constitute a lease.
- a1599, Spenser, View State Ireland in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) 58:
Derived terms
Translations
Descendants
- ? German: Farm
- ? Portuguese: farme, farma
Verb
farm (third-person singular simple present farms, present participle farming, simple past and past participle farmed)
- (intransitive) To work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops.
- (transitive) To devote (land) to farming.
- (transitive) To grow (a particular crop).
- To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; to farm out.
- December 1, 1783, Edmund Burke, Speech on Mr. Fox's East-India Bill
- to farm their subjects and their duties toward these
- December 1, 1783, Edmund Burke, Speech on Mr. Fox's East-India Bill
- (obsolete, transitive) To lease or let for an equivalent, e.g. land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.
- (obsolete, transitive) To take at a certain rent or rate.
- 1886, The Fortnightly (volume 46, page 530)
- In Paris it is stated that nearly half the birth-rate of the city finds its way to nurses who farm babies in the suburbs.
- 1886, The Fortnightly (volume 46, page 530)
- (video games, chiefly online gaming) To engage in grinding (repetitive activity) in a particular area or against specific enemies for a particular drop or item.
- 2004, "Doug Freyburger", Pudding Farming Requires Care (on newsgroup rec.games.roguelike.nethack)
- When you hit a black pudding with an iron weapon that does at least one point of damage there is a good chance it will divide into two black puddings of the same size (but half the hit points IIRC). […] When eaten black puddings confer several intrinsics so AC [armor class] is not the only potential benefit. […] Since black puddings are formidible[sic] monsters for an inexperienced character, farming is also a good way to die.
- 2010, Robert Alan Brookey, Hollywood Gamers (page 130)
- The practice of gold farming is controversial within gaming communities and violates the end user licensing agreements […]
- 2004, "Doug Freyburger", Pudding Farming Requires Care (on newsgroup rec.games.roguelike.nethack)
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- agriculture
- north forty
References
Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
Further reading
- farm on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
From Middle English fermen, from Old English feormian (“to clean, cleanse”), from Proto-West Germanic *furb?n (“to clean, polish, buff”). Doublet of furbish.
Verb
farm (third-person singular simple present farms, present participle farming, simple past and past participle farmed)
- (Britain, dialectal) To cleanse; clean out; put in order; empty; empty out
- Farm out the stable and pigsty.
Anagrams
- AFRM
Dalmatian
Alternative forms
- fiarm
Etymology
From Latin firmus. Compare Italian fermo.
Adjective
farm
- still, firm, steady, stationary
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
farm
- first-person singular present indicative of farmen
- imperative of farmen
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from English farm.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?f?rm]
- Hyphenation: farm
- Rhymes: -?rm
Noun
farm (plural farmok)
- farm
- Synonyms: tanya, gazdaság, birtok, földbirtok
Declension
References
Further reading
- farm in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Icelandic
Noun
farm
- indefinite accusative singular of farmur
Volapük
Noun
farm (nominative plural farms)
- farm
Declension
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nursery
English
Etymology
From Middle English noricerie, norserye (“children's nursery; state of being fostered or nursed; education, upbringing”) [and other forms], from Old French norricerie, nourricerie, from norrice, nourrice (modern French nourrice (“childminder, nanny; wet nurse”)) + -erie (suffix forming feminine nouns). Norrice and nourrice are derived from Late Latin n?tr?cia (“wet nurse”), from Latin n?tr?cius (“that nurses or suckles; nourishing”), from n?tri? (“to breastfeed, nurse, suckle”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh?- (“to flow”). The English word may be analysed as nourice, nurse +? -ery (suffix forming nouns meaning ‘place of’).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n??s??i/, /?n??s?i/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?n?s??i/, /?n?s?i/
- Hyphenation: nurs?e?ry
Noun
nursery (countable and uncountable, plural nurseries)
- (countable) A place where nursing (“breastfeeding”) or the raising of children is carried on.
- (by extension) Especially in European countries: a room or area in a household set apart for the care of children.
- A place where the pre-school children of working parents are supervised during the day; a crèche, a daycare centre.
- A nursery school (“a school where pre-school children learn and play at the same time”).
- (Philippines) The first year of pre-school.
- (by extension) Especially in European countries: a room or area in a household set apart for the care of children.
- (countable, also figuratively) A place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.
- (agriculture, zoology) A place where animals breed, or where young animals are naturally or artificially reared (for example, on a farm).
- (horticulture) A place where young shrubs, trees, vines, etc., are cultivated for transplanting, or (more generally) made available for public sale, a garden centre; also (obsolete) a plantation of young trees.
- (sports) A club or team for developing the skills of young players.
- (countable) Something which educates and nurtures.
- (countable, billiards) Short for nursery cannon (“a carom shot involving balls that are very close together”).
- (countable, obsolete, rare) Someone or something that is nursed; a nursling.
- (uncountable, obsolete) The act of nursing or rearing.
Derived terms
Related terms
- nurse
Translations
Notes
References
Further reading
- nursery (room) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- nursery habitat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- nursery school on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- plant nursery on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- nursery (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English nursery.
Noun
nursery f (invariable)
- nursery (place for the care of children)
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