ferme

ferme (plural fermes)

1. (cant) A hole.

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From Middle French ferme, from Old French ferm, ferme (“solid”), from Latin firmus (“solid, secure”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-, *dʰrē- (“to hold”).

ferme (plural fermes)

1. firm

• dur
• décidé

ferme f (plural fermes)

1. (carpentry) roof truss

ferme

1. inflection of fermer:
   1. first-person and third-person singular present indicative and subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Middle French ferme (“farm, farm buildings”), from Old French ferme (“lease for working, rent, farm”), from Medieval Latin ferma, firma (“rent, tax, tribute, farm”), from Old English feorm (“rent, provision, supplies, feast”), from Proto-Germanic *fermō, *firhuma- (“means of living, subsistence”), from Proto-Germanic *ferhwō (“life force, body, being”), from Proto-Indo-European *perkʷ- (“life, force, strength, tree”). Related to Old English feorh (“life, spirit”), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍈𐌿𐍃 (fairƕus, “the world”). Compare also Old English feormehām (“farm”), feormere (“purveyor”).

ferme f (plural fermes)

1. farm

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

ferme f pl

1. Feminine plural of adjective fermo.

ferme f pl

1. plural of ferma

• freme, fremé

From *ferimē, earlier superlative of ferē, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“to hold”). Cognates include firmus.

fermē (not comparable)

1. Closely, quite, entirely, fully, altogether, just.
2. In general, generally, usually, commonly, for most of the time.

• ferme in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ferme in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ferme in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

From Old French ferm, ferme (“solid”), from Latin firmus (“solid, secure”), from Proto-Indo-European *dher(ə)-, *dhrē- (“to hold”).

ferme m or f (plural fermes)

1. firm

ferme c (plural fermes)

1. farm

From Medieval Latin ferma, firma (“rent, tax, tribute, farm”), from Old English feorm (“rent, provision, supplies, feast”), from Proto-Germanic *firmō, *firhuma- (“means of living, subsistence”), from *firhu- (“life force, body, being”), from Proto-Indo-European *perkʷ- (“life, force, strength, tree”).

ferme f (oblique plural fermes, nominative singular ferme, nominative plural fermes)

1. lease (letting agreement)
2. the land leased
3. farm

ferme f

1. oblique and nominative singular feminine of ferm