Translingual

Etymology

From Latin formica ‎(“ant”).

Proper noun

Formica f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Formicidae – many ants.

Synonyms

• (genus): wood ant, mound ant, field ant

Hypernyms

• (genus): Insecta - class; Dicondylia - clade; Pterygota - subclass; Metapterygota - clade; Neoptera - infraclass; Eumetabola, Endopterygota - clades; Hymenopterida - superorder; Hymenoptera - order; Apocrita - suborder; Formicoidea - superfamily; Formicidae - family; Formicinae - subfamily; Formicini - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Formica (Coptoformica), Formica (Formica), Formica (Raptiformica), Formica (Serviformica) - subgenera
  • Formica rufa (type species)

English

Proper noun

Formica

1. A plastic laminate material.

Anagrams

• aciform
• AFRICOM

References

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Italian

Noun

formica f ‎(plural formiche)

1. an ant

Synonyms

• formicola

Related terms

• formicaio
• formicaleone
• formichiere
• formico
• formicolare

Anagrams

• cofirma

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *morwi ‎(“ant”) (with many taboo dissimilations). Cognate with Sanskrit वम्र ‎(vamra) Greek μύρμηξ ‎(múrmēx), Old Church Slavonic муравей ‎(muraveй), Old Irish moirb, Old Norse maurr, Welsh myrion, English mire.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /forˈmiː.ka/, [fɔrˈmiː.ka]

Alternative forms

• furmīca

Noun

formīca f ‎(genitive formīcae); first declension

1. an ant
2. vocative singular of formīca

formīcā

1. ablative singular of formīca

Inflection

First declension.

Derived terms

Related terms

• formīcātiō

Descendants

References

• formica in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• formica in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• FORMICA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “formica”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.