different between inform vs wisse

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?f??m/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?f??m/
• Rhymes: -??(?)m

Etymology 1

From Middle English informen, enformen, borrowed from Old French enformer, informer (“to train, instruct, inform”), from Latin ?nf?rm? (“to shape, form, train, instruct, educate”), from in- (“into”) + f?rma (“form, shape”), equivalent to in- +? form.

Alternative forms

• enform (obsolete)

Verb

inform (third-person singular simple present informs, present participle informing, simple past and past participle informed)

1. (archaic, transitive) To instruct, train (usually in matters of knowledge).
2. (transitive) To communicate knowledge to.

   • For he would learn their business secretly, / And then inform his master hastily.
3. (intransitive) To impart information or knowledge.
4. To act as an informer; denounce.
5. (transitive) To give form or character to; to inspire (with a given quality); to affect, influence (with a pervading principle, idea etc.).
6. (obsolete, intransitive) To make known, wisely and/or knowledgeably.
7. (obsolete, transitive) To direct, guide.
8. (archaic, intransitive) To take form; to become visible or manifest; to appear.

Synonyms

• (communicate knowledge to (trans.)): acquaint, apprise, notify; See also Thesaurus:inform
• (act as informer): dob, name names, peach, snitch; See also Thesaurus:rat out
• (take form): materialize, take shape; See also Thesaurus:come into being

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Latin ?nf?rmis

Adjective

inform (not comparable)

1. Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Cotton to this entry?) "Bleak Crags, and naked Hills, And the whole Prospect so inform and rude." (C. Cotton, Wonders of Peake in Poetical Works (1765) 342)

Anagrams

• -formin, F minor, Morfin, formin

Romanian

Etymology

From French informe, from Latin informis.

Adjective

inform m or n (feminine singular inform?, masculine plural informi, feminine and neuter plural informe)

1. deformed

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English wissen (“to instruct, enlighten, advise, admonish; guide, direct, control, manage, rule”), from Old English wissian (“to direct, instruct, guide, direct, rule; show, point out; declare, make known”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?s/

Verb

wisse (third-person singular simple present wisses, present participle wissing, simple past and past participle wissed)

1. (archaic) To show, teach, inform, guide, direct.

   • Or we depart I shal thee so wel wisse
     That of min hous ne shalt thou never misse

   • 1475, [unknown translator], Sidrak and Bokkus, translation of Livre de la fontaine de toutes sciences

     Shullen men chastice wymmen and wisse / Wiþ betyng whan þei done amisse?

References

Anagrams

• Weiss, swies, wises

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???s?/
• Hyphenation: wis?se
• Rhymes: -?s?

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch wisse, from Old Dutch *withtha, from Proto-Germanic *wiþj?. The development *-þj- > -ss- is also found in smidse (from earlier smisse); original *-þþ- becomes -tt- in lat, mot.

Noun

wisse f (plural wissen)

1. cubic metre (mainly when used for firewood)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

wisse

1. Inflected form of wis

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

wisse

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of wissen

German

Verb

wisse

1. first/third-person singular subjunctive I of wissen

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vis?/

Verb

wisse

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Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English wissung (“showing, instruction, guidance, direction; rule, regulation, government”).

Noun

wisse

1. A guide, set of instructions, rule, regulation.

   Her biginneð ancrene wisse. & Ancrene Wisse, c1230

Related terms

• wissen

References

• Middle English Dictionary

Old English

Verb

wisse

1. Alternative form of wiste