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firm
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /f??m/, [f?m]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /f??m/
- Rhymes: -??(?)m
Etymology 1
From Italian firma (“signature”), from firmare (“to sign”), from Latin firmare (“to make firm, to confirm (by signature)”), from firmus (“firm, stable”). The contemporary sense developed in the 18th century simultaneously with German Firma (“business, name of business”). There are conflicting statements in the literature as to which of the two languages influenced which.
Noun
firm (plural firms)
- (Britain, business) A business partnership; the name under which it trades.
- (business, economics) A business enterprise, however organized.
- (slang) A criminal gang, especially based around football hooliganism.
Derived terms
- The Firm
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English ferme, from Old French ferme, from Latin firmus (“strong, steady”). Doublet of dharma.
Adjective
firm (comparative firmer, superlative firmest)
- Steadfast, secure, solid (in position)
- Fixed (in opinion)
- He was firm that selling his company would a good choice and didn't let anyone talk him out of it.
- Durable, rigid (material state)
- firm flesh; firm muscles, firm wood; firm land (i.e. not soft and marshy)
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
firm (third-person singular simple present firms, present participle firming, simple past and past participle firmed)
- (transitive) To make firm or strong; fix securely.
- (transitive) To make compact or resistant to pressure; solidify.
- (intransitive) To become firm; stabilise.
- (intransitive) To improve after decline.
- (intransitive, Australia) To shorten (of betting odds).
- (transitive, Britain, slang) To select (a higher education institution) as one's preferred choice, so as to enrol automatically if one's grades match the conditional offer.
Translations
Further reading
- Firm in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- FRIM, fMRI, frim
German
Etymology
From Latin firmus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f??m/
Adjective
firm (comparative firmer, superlative am firmsten)
- (somewhat dated) experienced, well versed
Declension
Further reading
- “firm” in Duden online
Polish
Noun
firm f
- genitive plural of firma
Zoogocho Zapotec
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Spanish firma.
Noun
firm
- signature
Derived terms
- chgo?o firm
- cho?o firm
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Spanish firme.
Adjective
firm
- firm, fixed
References
- Long C., Rebecca; Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)?[2] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 220
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pithy
English
Etymology
pith +? -y
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p??i/
Adjective
pithy (comparative pithier, superlative pithiest)
- Concise and meaningful.
- 1825, William Hazlitt, Elia, and Geoffrey Crayon, in The Spirit of the Age,
- Mr. Lamb, on the contrary, being "native to the manner here," though he too has borrowed from previous sources, instead of availing himself of the most popular and admired, has groped out his way, and made his most successful researches among the more obscure and intricate, though certainly not the least pithy or pleasant of our writers.
- 1873 April 25, Obituary - Justus Liebig, in William Crookes (editor), The Chemical News,
- The following passage, which is exquisitely pithy and exquisitely modest, winds up the description:- "In this apparatus there is nothing new but its simplicity and thorough trustworthiness."
- 1876, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, On the Gratitude we owe our Enemies, in Shells from the Sands of Time,
- IT was a pithy saying that of Lorenzo de' Medici, and true as pithy, that we are enjoined to forgive our enemies, but nowhere are we told that we should forgive our friends.
- 1825, William Hazlitt, Elia, and Geoffrey Crayon, in The Spirit of the Age,
- Of, like, or abounding in pith.
- 1863, Theodore Winthrop, “The Heart of the Andes”, Part 2 – Introduction, published posthumously in Life in the Open Air and other papers,
- Must we know the torrid zone only through travelled bananas, plucked too soon and pithy? or by bottled anacondas? or by the tarry-flavored slang of forecastle-bred paroquets?
- 1910, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Manual of Gardening, Suggestions and Reminders I: For the North, April,
- Parsnip.—Dig the roots before they grow and become soft and pithy.
- 1911, Mushroom, article in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition,
- To summarize the characters of a true mushroom - it grows only in pastures; it is of small size, dry, and with unchangeable flesh; the cap has a frill; the gills are free from the stem, the spores brown-black or deep purple-black in colour, and the stem solid or slightly pithy.
- 1863, Theodore Winthrop, “The Heart of the Andes”, Part 2 – Introduction, published posthumously in Life in the Open Air and other papers,
Synonyms
- (brief and to the point): terse, concise, laconic, succinct
Translations
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