formica

A genericization of the trademark Formica, which see.

formica (countable and uncountable, plural formicas)

1. A heat-resistant laminate material used to veneer countertops.

• arborite

• Formica (the trademarked brand name material)
• Arborite (the trademarked brand name material)

• AFRICOM, aciform

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formica m (plural formicas)

1. formica

From Latin formīca, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *morwi. Cognates include Ancient Greek μύρμηξ (múrmēx).

• formicola

• IPA^(key): /forˈmi.ka/
• Rhymes: -ika
• Hyphenation: for‧mì‧ca

formica f (plural formiche)

1. ant

   Synonym: formicola

Borrowed from English Formica.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔr.mi.ka/
• Rhymes: -ɔrmika
• Hyphenation: fòr‧mi‧ca

formica f (plural formiche)

1. Formica (a plastic laminated material)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔr.mi.ka/
• Rhymes: -ɔrmika
• Hyphenation: fòr‧mi‧ca

formica

1. feminine singular of formico

• formica in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• formica in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• formica in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• formica in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• formica in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
• formica in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• cofirma

• furmīca (late, proscribed)

From Proto-Italic *mormīkā, from Proto-Indo-European *morwi (a term with many deviating forms, probably taboo distortions, in various Indo-European languages). The irregular change of m- to f- can be explained by dissimilation of m- -m- to f- -m-.[1] Cognate with Sanskrit वम्र (vamra), Ancient Greek μύρμηξ (múrmēx), Old Church Slavonic мравии (mravii), Polish mrówka, Old Irish moirb, Welsh myrion, Old Norse maurr, English mire, Albanian morr.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /forˈmiː.ka/, [fɔrˈmiːkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /forˈmi.ka/, [forˈmiːkä]

formīca f (genitive formīcae); first declension

1. ant
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.6.6:

     vāde ad formīcam ō piger et cōnsīderā viās eius et disce sapientiam

     Go to the ant, O sluggard, and consider her ways, and learn wisdom (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)

First-declension noun.

• “formica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “formica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• formica in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• formica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.