different between ferme vs feme

English

Noun

ferme (plural fermes)

1. (cant) A hole.

References

• OED2
• 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??m/

Etymology 1

From Middle French ferme, from Old French ferm, ferme (“solid”), from Latin firmus (“solid, secure”), from Proto-Italic *fermos, from Proto-Indo-European *d?er-mo-s (“holding”), from the root *d?er- (“to hold”)

Adjective

ferme (plural fermes)

1. firm

Synonyms

• dur
• décidé

Derived terms

• de pied ferme
• terre ferme

Noun

ferme f (plural fermes)

1. (carpentry) roof truss

Verb

ferme

1. inflection of fermer:
   1. first-person and third-person singular present indicative and subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Etymology 2

From Middle French ferme (“farm, farm buildings”), from Old French ferme (“lease for working, rent, farm”), from Medieval Latin ferma, firma (“rent, tax, tribute, farm”), from Old English feorm (“rent, provision, supplies, feast”), from Proto-Germanic *ferm?, *firhuma- (“means of living, subsistence”), from Proto-Germanic *ferhw? (“life force, body, being”), from Proto-Indo-European *perk?- (“life, force, strength, tree”). Related to Old English feorh (“life, spirit”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (fair?us, “the world”). Compare also Old English feormeh?m (“farm”), feormere (“purveyor”).

Noun

ferme f (plural fermes)

1. farm

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Romanian: ferm?

Further reading

• “ferme” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Adjective

ferme f pl

1. feminine plural of fermo

Noun

ferme f pl

1. plural of ferma

Anagrams

• freme, fremé

Latin

Etymology

From *ferim?, earlier superlative of fer?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *d?er- (“to hold”). Cognates include firmus.

Adverb

ferm? (not comparable)

1. Closely, quite, entirely, fully, altogether, just.
2. In general, generally, usually, commonly, for most of the time.

References

• ferme in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ferme in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ferme in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French ferm, ferme (“solid”), from Latin firmus (“solid, secure”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?er- (“to hold”).

Adjective

ferme m or f (plural fermes)

1. firm

Descendants

• French: ferme

Old French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin ferma, firma (“rent, tax, tribute, farm”), from Old English feorm (“rent, provision, supplies, feast”), from Proto-Germanic *firm?, *ferm? (“means of living, subsistence”), from *firhu- (“life force, body, being”), from Proto-Indo-European *perk?- (“life, force, strength, tree”).

Noun

ferme f (oblique plural fermes, nominative singular ferme, nominative plural fermes)

1. lease (letting agreement)
2. the land leased
3. farm

Descendants

• Middle English: ferme, farme
  • English: farm
  • Welsh: fferm
• French: ferme

Adjective

ferme f

1. oblique and nominative singular feminine of ferm

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ferme]

Noun

ferme f

1. indefinite plural of ferm?
2. indefinite genitive/dative singular of ferm?

English

Etymology

From Middle English feme, from Anglo-Norman feme (“woman”). Compare femme.

Noun

feme (plural femes)

1. (law, historical) A woman.
   • 1825, Westminster Hall: Or, Professional Relics and Anecdotes of the Bar, Bench and Woolsack, Henry Roscoe and Thomas Roscoe

     TRESPASS FOR INTERMEDDLING WITH A FEME.

     There are some curious decisions in the old books regarding this point of law, with which it may be useful to be acquainted. In Br. Ab. Tresp. 40, it is said that a man may aid a feme who falls upon the ground from a horse, and so if she be sick, and the same if her baron would murder her. And the same per Rede if the feme would kill herself. And per Fineux a man may conduct a feme on a pilgrimage. So where a feme is going to market, it is lawful for another to suffer her to ride behind him on his horse to market. (Br. Ab. Tresp. 207.) And if a feme says that she is in jeopardy of her life by her baron, and prays him (a stranger) to carry her to a justice of the peace, he may lawfully do it. (Br. Ab. Tresp. 207.) But where any feme is out of the way, it is not lawful for a man to take her to his house, if she was not in danger of being lost in the night, or being drowned with water. (Br. Ab. Tresp. 213.)

Derived terms

• feme covert
• feme sole

Anagrams

• meef

Old French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?m?]

Noun

feme f (oblique plural femes, nominative singular feme, nominative plural femes)

1. Alternative form of fame

Spanish

Verb

feme

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of femar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of femar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of femar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of femar.

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French feme, fame, from Latin femina, from Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?-m?n-eh? (“who sucks”), derivation of the verbal root *d?eh?(y)- (“to suck, suckle”).

Noun

feme f (plural femes)

1. woman
2. wife

Coordinate terms

• (gender): ome