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語源

Synchronically fōrma (“mould”) +‎ -āticum (noun-forming suffix). Has also been suggested to be a contraction of *[cāseus fōrmāticus] 'mould-cheese' (although the latter is not attested as an adjective), in which case the masculine variants would be original.

Attested in the eighth-century Reichenau Glossary and the Capitulary of Charlemagne (802 CE).^[1] Doublet of fōrmāgium, which was borrowed back through the Old French descendant formage.

Displaced the original Latin term cāseus in Gallo-Romance, though apparently at a relatively late date, considering that the latter has left various reflexes,^[2] such as the French casier (“cheese-basket”). On the other hand, the early Breton borrowing fourondec shows that the term pre-dates the syncope of the penultimate vowel in Gallo-Romance, a change which would have occurred at some point during the eighth or ninth century CE.^[3]

Compare the single occurrence of fōrmulae in the sense of 'cheese-moulds' in Late Latin,^[4] and several of its diminutive fōrmella.^[5]

発音

• (Proto-Western-Romance) IPA^(key): /forˈmadeɡu/
• (Proto-Gallo-Romance) IPA^(key): /forˈmad͡ʒo/

名詞

fōrmāticum n (genitive fōrmāticī); second declension (Early Medieval Latin)

1. cheese

   Synonym: cāseus (Classical)

Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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