farm

From Latin firmus. Compare Italian fermo.


farm

first-person singular present indicative

(in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative


farm

A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.

A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation.

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:

(often in combination) A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures.

a render farm

a server farm

(computing) A group of coordinated servers.

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:

(obsolete) A fixed yearly amount (food, provisions, money, etc.) payable as rent or tax.

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:

(historical) A fixed yearly sum accepted from a person as a composition for taxes or other moneys which he is empowered to collect; also, a fixed charge imposed on a town, county, etc., in respect of a tax or taxes to be collected within its limits.

The first farm of postal income was made in 1672.

(historical) The letting-out of public revenue to a ‘farmer’; the privilege of farming a tax or taxes.

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.

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:

The condition of being let at a fixed rent; lease; a lease.

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; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:

→ Dutch: farm

→ Finnish: farmi

→ German: Farm

→ Portuguese: farme

→ Yiddish: פֿאַרם (farm)

→ Spanish: farmear

→ Thai: ฟาร์ม (faam)

plaas

place where agricultural activities take place

хозя́йство

крестьянское

vuokrapelto

tract of land held on lease for cultivation

puisto

industrial location with many similar structures

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. There is debate as to whether Medieval Latin acquires 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”).


farm

(intransitive) To work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops.

(transitive) To devote (land) to farming.

(transitive) To grow (a particular crop).

to farm the taxes

December 1, 1783, Edmund Burke, Speech on Mr. Fox's East-India Bill
to farm their subjects and their duties toward these

To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; to farm out.

We are enforced to farm our royal realm.

1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:

(obsolete, transitive) To lease or let for an equivalent, e.g. land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.

In Paris it is stated that nearly half the birth-rate of the city finds its way to nurses who farm babies in the suburbs.

1886, The Fortnightly, volume 46, page 530:

(obsolete, transitive) To take at a certain rent or rate.

When you hit a black pudding with an iron weapon that does at least one point of damage there is a good chance it will divide into two black puddings of the same size (but half the hit points IIRC). […] When eaten black puddings confer several intrinsics so AC [armor class] is not the only potential benefit. […] Since black puddings are formidible^([sic]) monsters for an inexperienced character, farming is also a good way to die.

2004, Doug Freyburger, “Pudding Farming Requires Care”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet):

The practice of gold farming is controversial within gaming communities and violates the end user licensing agreements[…]

2010, Robert Alan Brookey, Hollywood Gamers, page 130:

(video games, chiefly online gaming) To engage in grinding (repetitive activity) in a particular area or against specific enemies for a particular drop or item.

en-verb

farm (third-person singular simple present farms, present participle farming, simple past and past participle farmed)

farms (present singular third-person)
farming (participle present)
farmed (participle past)
farmed (past)

From Middle English fermen, from Anglo-Norman fermer (“to let out for a fixed payment, lease, rent”) ultimately from the same Old English source as Etymology 1. Compare Old English feormian (“to feed, supply with food, sustain”).


farm

Farm out the stable and pigsty.

(UK, dialectal) To cleanse; clean out; put in order; empty; empty out

From Middle English fermen, from Old English feormian (“to clean, cleanse”), from Proto-West Germanic *furbēn (“to clean, polish, buff”). Doublet of furbish.


farm

farmok (plural)
farm (nominative singular)
farmok (nominative plural)
farmot (accusative singular)
farmokat (accusative plural)
farmnak (dative singular)
farmoknak (dative plural)
farmmal (instrumental singular)
farmokkal (instrumental plural)
farmért (causal-final singular)
farmokért (causal-final plural)
farmmá (singular translative)
farmokká (plural translative)
farmig (singular terminative)
farmokig (plural terminative)
farmként (essive-formal singular)
farmokként (essive-formal plural)
farmban (inessive singular)
farmokban (inessive plural)
farmon (singular superessive)
farmokon (plural superessive)
farmnál (adessive singular)
farmoknál (adessive plural)
farmba (illative singular)
farmokba (illative plural)
farmra (singular sublative)
farmokra (plural sublative)
farmhoz (allative singular)
farmokhoz (allative plural)
farmból (elative singular)
farmokból (elative plural)
farmról (delative singular)
farmokról (delative plural)
farmtól (ablative singular)
farmoktól (ablative plural)
farmé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
farmoké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
farméi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
farmokéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
farmom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
farmjaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
farmod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
farmjaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
farmja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
farmjai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
farmunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
farmjaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
farmotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
farmjaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
farmjuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
farmjaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)


farm

indefinite accusative singular of farmur


farm

farms (nominative plural)
farm (nominative singular)
farms (nominative plural)
farma (genitive singular)
farmas (genitive plural)
farme (dative singular)
farmes (dative plural)
farmi (accusative singular)
farmis (accusative plural)
o farm! (singular vocative)
o farms! (plural vocative)
farmu (predicative singular)
farmus (plural predicative)