different between forge vs forme

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f??d??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /f??d??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /fo(?)?d??/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /fo?d??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?

Etymology 1

From Middle English forge, from Old French forge, early Old French faverge, from Latin fabrica (“workshop”), from faber (“workman in hard materials, smith”) (genitive fabri). Cognate with Franco-Provençal favèrge.

Noun

forge (plural forges)

1. Furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
2. Workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
3. The act of beating or working iron or steel.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English forgen, from Anglo-Norman forger and Old French forgier, from Latin fabrico (“to frame, construct, build”).

Verb

forge (third-person singular simple present forges, present participle forging, simple past and past participle forged)

2. (metallurgy) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.

   • On Mars's armor forged for proof eterne
3. To form or create with concerted effort.

   • Those names that the schools forged, and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use.

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Geraint and Enid

     […] do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves.
4. To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.

5. To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.
   • 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras

     That paltry story is untrue, / And forged to cheat such gulls as you.

Derived terms

• forgery

Translations

Etymology 3

Make way, move ahead, most likely an alteration of force, but perhaps from forge (n.), via notion of steady hammering at something. Originally nautical, in reference to vessels.

Verb

forge (third-person singular simple present forges, present participle forging, simple past and past participle forged)

1. (often as forge ahead) To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually but steadily; to proceed towards a goal in the face of resistance or difficulty.

   The party of explorers forged through the thick underbrush.

   We decided to forge ahead with our plans even though our biggest underwriter backed out.

   • 1849, Thomas De Quincey, Dream-Fugue (published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine)

     And off she [a ship] forged without a shock.

2. (sometimes as forge ahead) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.

   With seconds left in the race, the runner forged into first place.

Translations

See also

• fabricate
• make up
• blacksmith

Anagrams

• gofer

French

Etymology

From Old French forge, from earlier faverge, inherited from Latin f?brica. Doublet of fabrique, which was borrowed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f???/

Noun

forge f (plural forges)

1. forge (workshop)
2. forge (furnace)

Descendants

• ? Catalan: forja
• ? Franco-Provençal: fôrge
• ? Galician: forxa
• ? Italian: forgia
• ? Portuguese: forja
• ? Romanian: forj?
• ? Spanish: forja

Verb

forge

1. first-person singular present indicative of forger
2. third-person singular present indicative of forger
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of forger
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of forger
5. second-person singular imperative of forger

Further reading

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

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French forge, from earlier faverge, from Latin fabrica.

Alternative forms

• fforge

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?rd?(?)/, /?f??rd?(?)/

Noun

forge

1. forge (workshop)

Descendants

• English: forge
• Scots: forge

References

• “f??r?e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Verb

forge

1. Alternative form of forgen

Old French

Etymology

From older faverge, from Latin f?brica.

Noun

forge f (oblique plural forges, nominative singular forge, nominative plural forges)

1. forge (workshop)

Descendants

• French: forge
  • ? Catalan: forja
  • ? Franco-Provençal: fôrge
  • ? Galician: forxa
  • ? Italian: forgia
  • ? Portuguese: forja
  • ? Romanian: forj?
  • ? Spanish: forja
• ? Middle English: forge, fforge
  • English: forge
  • Scots: forge

English

Noun

forme (plural formes)

1. Obsolete form of form.
2. (printing) Alternative form of form (“type etc. secured in a chase”)
   • 1978, David A. Bloestein, Introduction, John Marston, David A. Bloestein (editor), Parasitaster: Or, The Fawn, page 47,

     Both these formes, with running titles intact, were retained to print sheet D of Q2.

   • 1994, Jay L. Halio, Introduction, Jay L. Halio (editor), William Shakespeare, The First Quarto of King Lear, page 21,

     Q2 was printed in twenty-two formes.

   • 2011, Eugene Giddens, How to Read a Shakespearean Play Text, page 41,

     In casting off, the printing house would judge the length of a manuscript to determine both how many sheets would be needed, and what the divisions were between one forme and another. (A forme is one side of a sheet: four quarto pages or two folio pages.) Because formes do not have many consecutive pages, estimates would be further broken down by page. If a quarto forme includes a putative page one, for instance, that side of the sheet would also include pages four, five, and eight.

Anagrams

• Frome, e-form, eForm, eform, feorm, frome

Asturian

Verb

forme

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of formar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of formar

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?rm?/, [?f??m?]

Etymology 1

See form (“shape, form”).

Noun

forme c

1. indefinite plural of form

Etymology 2

From form (“shape, form”).

Verb

forme (imperative form, infinitive at forme, present tense former, past tense formede, perfect tense er/har formet)

1. shape
2. clay
3. mould
4. form, frame

French

Etymology

From Old French forme, borrowed from Latin f?rma, possibly cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (morph?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??m/

Noun

forme f (plural formes)

1. shape (geometrical representation)
2. shape (physical appearance)
3. form

Derived terms

Related terms

• difforme
• formel
• former
• formule
  • formulaire
• informe

Further reading

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

German

Verb

forme

1. inflection of formen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Italian

Noun

forme f pl

1. plural of forma

Anagrams

• fermo, fermò, fremo

Latin

Adjective

forme

1. vocative masculine singular of formus

Norman

Etymology

From Old French forme, borrowed from Latin forma.

Pronunciation

Noun

forme f (plural formes)

1. (Jersey) form

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse forma

Verb

forme (imperative form, present tense former, passive formes, simple past and past participle forma or formet, present participle formende)

1. to form
2. to shape

Derived terms

• formbar
• omforme

Related terms

• form (noun)

References

• “forme” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• forma

Etymology

From Old Norse forma

Verb

forme (present tense formar, past tense forma, past participle forma, passive infinitive formast, present participle formande, imperative form)

1. to form
2. to shape

Derived terms

• formbar

Related terms

• form (noun)
• -forma

References

• “forme” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Verb

forme

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of formar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of formar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of formar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of formar

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?forme]

Noun

forme f pl

1. plural of form?

Spanish

Verb

forme

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