formaceus
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From fōrma (“shape, mould”) + -āceus (“relational adjective suffix”). Said to be current in Africa and Spain, and is continued in Spanish. Isidore cites the substantivised fōrmācium, with fōrmātum as a synonym.[1] Compare Spanish horma (“dry stone wall”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /foːrˈmaː.ke.us/, [foːrˈmäːkeʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /forˈma.t͡ʃe.us/, [forˈmäːt͡ʃeus]
Adjective
[edit]fōrmāceus (feminine fōrmācea, neuter fōrmāceum); first/second-declension adjective
- (hapax) made using a form or mould, moulded
- Pliny, Natural History 35.169.2:
- […] nōn in Āfricā Hispāniāque ē terrā parietēs, quōs appellant fōrmāceōs, quoniam in fōrmā circumdatīs duābus utrimque tabulīs inferciuntur vērius quam īnstruuntur, aevīs dūrant […] ?
- […] don't they last for ages, the earthen walls in Africa and Spain that they call moulded because they're stuffed in a mould, with two boards on either side, rather than constructed […] ?
- […] nōn in Āfricā Hispāniāque ē terrā parietēs, quōs appellant fōrmāceōs, quoniam in fōrmā circumdatīs duābus utrimque tabulīs inferciuntur vērius quam īnstruuntur, aevīs dūrant […] ?
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | fōrmāceus | fōrmācea | fōrmāceum | fōrmāceī | fōrmāceae | fōrmācea | |
genitive | fōrmāceī | fōrmāceae | fōrmāceī | fōrmāceōrum | fōrmāceārum | fōrmāceōrum | |
dative | fōrmāceō | fōrmāceae | fōrmāceō | fōrmāceīs | |||
accusative | fōrmāceum | fōrmāceam | fōrmāceum | fōrmāceōs | fōrmāceās | fōrmācea | |
ablative | fōrmāceō | fōrmāceā | fōrmāceō | fōrmāceīs | |||
vocative | fōrmācee | fōrmācea | fōrmāceum | fōrmāceī | fōrmāceae | fōrmācea |
Related terms
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[edit]References
[edit]- “formaceus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- formaceus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ The Etymologies or The Origins, XV.9.5