farm – English noun declension

English noun forms of farm

Noun: farm
Singularfarm
Pluralfarms

Sample Sentences

  • antenna farm; fuel farm; solar farm; wind farm
  • The skies are threatening to pour on the Apple solar farm but as the woman in-charge of the company’s environmental initiatives points out: the panels are still putting out some power. Apple is still greening its act. [2014 July 25, Suzanne Goldenberg, “Apple eyes solar to power the cloud and iPhone 6 sapphire manufacturing”, in The Guardian:]
  • a render farm
  • a server farm
  • If a man be bounden unto 1.s. in 100.l.£ to grant unto him the rent and farme of such a Mill. [1642, J. Perkins, transl., Profitable Bk. (new ed.) xi. §751. 329:]
  • All..Tythings shall stand at the old Farm, without any Increase. [1700, J. Tyrrell, Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 814:]
  • The most usual and customary feorm or rent..must be reserved yearly on such lease. [1767, W. Blackstone, Comm. Laws Eng. II. 320:]
  • He [the Sheriff] paid into the Exchequer the fixed yearly sum which formed the farm of the shire. [1876, E. A. Freeman, Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiv. 439:]
  • The first farm of postal income was made in 1672. [1885, Edwards in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 580]
  • They despair of a suppression of the Farm. [1786, T. Jefferson, Writings (1859) I. 568:]
  • It is a great willfullnes in any such Land-lord to refuse to make any longer farmes unto their Tennants. [1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:]
  • Thence the Leases so made were called Feormes or Farmes, which word signifieth Victuals. [1647, N. Bacon, Hist. Disc. Govt. 75:]
  • The words demise, lease, and to farm let, are the proper ones to constitute a lease. [1818, W. Cruise, Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) IV. 68:]
  • Oliver’s sobs checked his utterance for some minutes; when he was on the point of beginning to relate how he had been brought up at the farm, and carried to the workhouse by Mr. Bumble, a peculiarly impatient little double-knock was heard at the street-door: and the servant, running upstairs, announced Mr. Grimwig. [1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:]

Etymology

1. Inherited from Middle English ferme, farme (“rent, revenue, produce, factor, stewardship, meal, feast”), influenced by Anglo-Norman ferme (“rent, lease, farm”), from Medieval Latin ferma, firma.
2. There is debate as to whether Medieval Latin acquired this term from Old English feorm (“rent, provision, supplies, feast”), from Proto-Germanic *fermō, *firhuma- (“means of living, subsistence”), from Proto-Germanic *ferhwō (“life force, body, being”), from Proto-Indo-European *perkʷ- (“life, force, strength, tree”); or from Latin firmus (“solid, secure”), from Proto-Italic *fermos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-mo-s (“holding”), from the root *dʰer- (“to hold”). If the former etymology is correct, the term is related to Old English feorh (“life, spirit”), Icelandic fjör (“life, vitality, vigour, animation”), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍈𐌿𐍃 (fairƕus, “the world”). Compare also Old English feormehām (“farm”), feormere (“purveyor, supplier, grocer”). Cognate with Scots ferm (“rent, farm”). See: Middle English Nouns 'ferme', Middle English Nouns 'ferme', Old English Nouns 'feorm', Latin Nouns 'firmus', Old English Nouns 'feorh', Icelandic Nouns 'fjör', Gothic Nouns '𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍈𐌿𐍃'.

Verbs referencing "farm"

Danish Nouns farm, Swedish Nouns farm, German Nouns Farm, Finnish Nouns farmi, Old English Nouns feorm, Greek Nouns φάρμα.