fomes

English

Etymology

From Latin fōmes (“touchwood, tinder”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfoʊ.miːz/

Noun

fomes (plural fomites)

  1. (medicine, obsolete) Any substance supposed to be capable of absorbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious germs.
    Woollen clothes are said to be active fomites.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for fomes in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ-. Related to Latin foveō (“I keep warm”), compare Latin fōmentum (“compress, poultice; kindling; mitigation”).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfoː.mes/, [ˈfoː.mɛs]

Noun

fōmes f (genitive fōmitis); third declension

  1. tinder, kindling

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fōmes fōmitēs
Genitive fōmitis fōmitum
Dative fōmitī fōmitibus
Accusative fōmitem fōmitēs
Ablative fōmite fōmitibus
Vocative fōmes fōmitēs

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

Middle English

Noun

fomes

  1. plural of fome

Portuguese

Noun

fomes

  1. Plural of noun fome.

Spanish

Adjective

fomes

  1. plural of fome
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