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ferment
English
Etymology
From Middle French ferment, from Latin fermentare (“to leaven, ferment”), from fermentum (“substance causing fermentation”), from fervere (“to boil, seethe”). See also fervent.
Pronunciation
- (verb):
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /f??m?nt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /f??m?nt/
- (noun):
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?f??m?nt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?f?m?nt/
Verb
ferment (third-person singular simple present ferments, present participle fermenting, simple past and past participle fermented)
- To react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew.
- To stir up, agitate, cause unrest or excitement in.
Translations
Noun
ferment (plural ferments)
- Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.
- A state of agitation or of turbulent change.
- a. 1729, John Rogers, The Difficulties of Obtaining Salvation
- Subdue and cool the ferment of desire.
- 14 November, 1770, Junius, letter to the Right Honourable Lord Mansfield
- The nation is in a ferment.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 104
- Clad in a Persian-Renaissance gown and a widow's tiara of white batiste, Mrs Thoroughfare, in all the ferment of a Marriage-Christening, left her chamber on vapoury autumn day and descending a few stairs, and climbing a few others, knocked a trifle brusquely at her son's wife's door.
- a. 1729, John Rogers, The Difficulties of Obtaining Salvation
- A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
- A catalyst.
Translations
See also
- foment
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “ferment”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
- ferment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- Fermentation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- fretmen
French
Verb
ferment
- third-person plural present indicative of fermer
- third-person plural present subjunctive of fermer
Romanian
Etymology
From French ferment, from Latin fermentum.
Noun
ferment m (plural fermen?i)
- ferment
Declension
ferment From the web:
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fermentable
English
Etymology
ferment +? -able
Adjective
fermentable (comparative more fermentable, superlative most fermentable)
- Able to ferment or be fermented.
Noun
fermentable (plural fermentables)
- Any substance that can be fermented.
- 2011, Abigail R. Gehring, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Living
- Purchase other fermentables (more fermentables mean more alcohol) like dry malt extract, rice syrup, brewers' sugar, liquid malt extract, Belgian candi sugar, or demera sugar or any combination of the above.
- 2011, Abigail R. Gehring, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Living
French
Adjective
fermentable (plural fermentables)
- fermentable
fermentable From the web:
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