firme
See also: firmé
French
Etymology
From English firm (“commercial undertaking, corporate name”) and/or German Firma (“business, business name, signature”), both from Italian firma (“signature”), from firmare (“to sign”), from Latin firmō (“to make firm”); possibly conflated with Medieval Latin firma (“farmed office, source of revenue”), from Old English feorm (“food, rent, tribute”). More at firm, farm.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fiʁm/
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Further reading
- “firme” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
References
- firme in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- firme in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- firme in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese firme, from Vulgar Latin firmis, from Latin firmus, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-mo-s (“holding”), from the root *dʰer- (“to hold”).
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈfiɾ.mɨ/
- Hyphenation: fir‧me
Spanish
Verb
firme
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