firme
French
noun
Definitions
- firm (company)
Etymology
Borrowed from English firm (corporate name, commercial undertaking) borrowed from German Firma (business, signature, company, business name, name of business) derived from Italian firma (signature, signature of a company) derived from Latin firmō (strengthen, fortify, make firm), firma derived from Old English feorm (supplies, rent, feast, provision, food, provisions, subsistence, tribute, entertainment).
Origin
Old English
feorm
Gloss
supplies, rent, feast, provision, food, provisions, subsistence, tribute, entertainment
Concept
Semantic Field
Possession
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- firm English
- firmer English
- firmish English
- firmless English
- firmly English
- firmness English
- firmware English
- firmwide English
- interfirm English
- megafirm English
- semifirm English
- stand firm English
- superfirm English
- unfirm English
- firma Finnish
- affirmo Latin
- confirmo Latin
- ferma Latin
- firma Latin
- firmare Latin
- firmō Latin
- offirmo Latin
- Abbruchfirma German
- Briefkastenfirma German
- Firma German
- Firmenname German
- controfirma Italian
- firma Italian
- ferme French
- *dʰer- Proto-Indo-European
- firma Portuguese
- *fermō Proto-Germanic
- *firmō Proto-Germanic
- dægfeorm Old English
- feorm Old English
- feormeham Old English
- feormere Old English
- winterfeorm Old English
- firma Serbo-Croatian
- ferma Ido
- firma Turkish
- ifema Xhosa
- fermur Dalmatian
- firma Crimean Tatar
- fermà Neapolitan