fermigar

Ido

Etymology

ferma (“firm, steady, solid, stable, fixed, compact, stout”) +‎ -igar

Verb

fermigar (present tense fermigas, past tense fermigis, future tense fermigos, imperative fermigez, conditional fermigus)

1. to strengthen, to make firm
   • Markezo de Segur, Vivo di Santa Franciskus de Sales, tr. by Lucie Poitresse, 1927, 4.

     Deo, por fermigar lua kurajo, probis lu per hororinda tenteso.

     God, to strengthen his courage, tried him with horrific temptation.

   • Árpád Rátkai, "Ido en Hungaria", Progreso, 327 (January - April 2003), 27.

     L'idisti anke en la pre-urbi di Budapest probis fermigar lia bazo.

     The Idists also tried to make their base firmer in the suburbs of Budapest.

Conjugation

    Conjugation of fermigar

		present		past		future
infinitive		fermigar		fermigir		fermigor
tense		fermigas		fermigis		fermigos
conditional		fermigus
imperative		fermigez
adjective active participle		fermiganta		fermiginta		fermigonta
adverbial active participle		fermigante		fermiginte		fermigonte
nominal active participle	singular	fermiganto		fermiginto		fermigonto
	plural	fermiganti		fermiginti		fermigonti
adjective passive participle		fermigata		fermigita		fermigota
adverbial passive participle		fermigate		fermigite		fermigote
nominal passive participle	singular	fermigato		fermigito		fermigoto
	plural	fermigati		fermigiti		fermigoti

Derived terms

• plufermigar