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Webster 1913 Edition
Ferme
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Ferm
,Ferme
,Noun.
[See
Farm
.] Rent for a farm; a farm; also, an abode; a place of residence;
as, he let his land to
. ferm
[Obs.]
Out of her fleshy
ferme
fled to the place of pain. Spenser.
Definition 2024
fèrme
fèrme
Norman
Adjective
fèrme m, f
Etymology 2
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 *firmō, *firhuma- (“means of living, subsistence”), from *firhu- (“life force, body, being”), from Proto-Indo-European *perkʷ- (“life, force, strength, tree”).
Noun
fèrme f (plural fèrmes)
Derived terms
- fèrmer (“to farm”)
- valet d'fèrme (“farmhand”)
Related terms
- fèrmyi (“farmer”)