formel

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formel (plural formels)

1. (rare) An adult female hawk or eagle.
   • 1987, Meredith Ann Pierce, Birth of the Firebringer, page 39:

     "There was a serpent in the gryphon's eye, he realized slowly, a snake and a hawk that danced and circled one another. The formel's voice lilted, drifting in and out of his thoughts."

   • 1879, David Laing Purves, The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems:

     "... and as, in “The Assembly of Fowls,” the formel or female eagle, who is supposed to represent the Lady Blanche, ..."

• tiercel

• Folmer

From Latin formula, diminutive of fōrma (“shape, form”).

formel c (singular definite formlen or formelen, plural indefinite formler)

1. formula

From French formel (“formal”), from Latin formalis, from fōrma (“shape, form”).

formel

1. formal

• formel on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Learned borrowing from Latin formālis, from forma (“form”) (whence forme).

• IPA^(key): /fɔʁ.mɛl/

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formel (feminine formelle, masculine plural formels, feminine plural formelles)

1. formal; official

   Antonym: informel

2. adamant, positive, certain

   Synonym: catégorique

• formalisme
• formaliste
• formaliser
• formalité

• “formel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Latin formula.

formel m (definite singular formelen, indefinite plural formler, definite plural formlene)

1. a formula

• “formel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin formula.

formel m (definite singular formelen, indefinite plural formlar, definite plural formlane)

1. a formula

• “formel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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formel c

1. (mathematics, chemistry) formula; an expression formulated by the use of symbols

• trollformel (“magic spell”)

• formel in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• formel in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• formel in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

From French formel.

• IPA^(key): /fɔɾ.mɛl/

formel

1. formal, official