multiforme
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Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin multifōrmis. By surface analysis, multi- + -forme.
Adjective
[edit]multiforme m or f (masculine and feminine plural multiformes)
Further reading
[edit]- “multiforme”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]multiforme (plural multiformes)
Further reading
[edit]- “multiforme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin multifōrmis, calque of Ancient Greek πολύμορφος (polúmorphos). By surface analysis, multi- (“many”, “multi-”, multiplying prefix) + -forme (“form”, “shape”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]multiforme (plural multiformi)
- multiform
- varied
- versatile
- 2015, Daniele Luttazzi, “Bloom: Porno-Teo-Kolossal”, in Bloom: Porno-Teo-Kolossal, 1st edition (satirical parody; paperback), Il Fatto Quotidiano, A, page 7:
- Un uom dal multiforme ingegno vive, del mondo esperto, e delli vizi umani e del valore, rege d'Itaca pietrosa
- A man of multiform ingenuity lives, experienced of the world, and of human vices and virtue, king of rocky Ithaca.
Latin
[edit]Adjective
[edit]multifōrme
Spanish
[edit]Adjective
[edit]multiforme m or f (masculine and feminine plural multiformes)
Further reading
[edit]- “multiforme”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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