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formico
formico
See also: fórmico
Italian
Adjective
formico m (feminine singular formica, masculine plural formici, feminine plural formiche)
- (organic chemistry) formic
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Latin
Etymology
From formīca (“ant”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /forˈmiː.koː/, [fɔrˈmiː.koː]
Verb
formīcō (present infinitive formīcāre); first conjugation, no perfect or supine forms
- (intransitive) I crawl like an ant.
- (intransitive) I feel as if ants are crawling on my skin, experience formication.
Inflection
| Conjugation of formico (first conjugation, defective, active only) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | formīcō | formīcās | formīcat | formīcāmus | formīcātis | formīcant |
| imperfect | formīcābam | formīcābās | formīcābat | formīcābāmus | formīcābātis | formīcābant | |
| future | formīcābō | formīcābis | formīcābit | formīcābimus | formīcābitis | formīcābunt | |
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | formīcem | formīcēs | formīcet | formīcēmus | formīcētis | formīcent |
| imperfect | formīcārem | formīcārēs | formīcāret | formīcārēmus | formīcārētis | formīcārent | |
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | formīcā | — | — | formīcāte | — |
| future | — | formīcātō | formīcātō | — | formīcātōte | formīcantō | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | formīcāre | — | — | — | — | — | |
| participles | formīcāns | — | — | — | — | — | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| nominative | genitive | dative/ablative | accusative | accusative | ablative | ||
| formīcāre | formīcandī | formīcandō | formīcandum | — | — | ||
Derived terms
- formīcātiō
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References
- formico in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “formico”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.