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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈfəʊmiːz/ [UK], /ˈfoʊ.miːz/ [US] Forms: fomites [plural]
Etymology: From medical Latin fōmes (“fomite”), a figurative extension of its original sense of kindling, tinder, etc. Gradually supplanted in use by fomite, a mistaken backformation of its plural form fomites, from Latin fōmitēs. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|fōmes|t=fomite}} Latin fōmes (“fomite”) Head templates: {{en-noun|fomites}} fomes (plural fomites)
  1. (obsolete, medicine) The morbid matter created by a disease. Tags: obsolete Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en-fomes-en-noun-rcDD2DiV Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 5 entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 37 34 29 Disambiguation of Pages with 5 entries: 25 18 18 6 2 31 Topics: medicine, sciences
  2. (archaic, medicine) Synonym of fomite: a substance able to communicate infection between people. Tags: archaic Categories (topical): Medicine Synonyms: fomite [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-fomes-en-noun-blOAEbr5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 5 entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 37 34 29 Disambiguation of Pages with 5 entries: 25 18 18 6 2 31 Topics: medicine, sciences
  3. (archaic, figurative) Anything which similarly facilitates the spread of something similarly deleterious. Tags: archaic, figuratively
    Sense id: en-fomes-en-noun-3MQRXRwd Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 5 entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 37 34 29 Disambiguation of Pages with 5 entries: 25 18 18 6 2 31

Noun [Latin]

IPA: /ˈfoː.mes/ [Classical-Latin], [ˈfoːmɛs̠] [Classical-Latin], /ˈfo.mes/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [ˈfɔːmes] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ-. Related to Latin foveō (“I keep warm”), compare Latin fōmentum (“compress, poultice; kindling; mitigation”). Etymology templates: {{der|la|ine-pro|*dʰegʷʰ-}} Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ-, {{cog|la|foveō|t=I keep warm}} Latin foveō (“I keep warm”), {{cog|la|fōmentum|t=compress, poultice; kindling; mitigation}} Latin fōmentum (“compress, poultice; kindling; mitigation”) Head templates: {{la-noun|fōmes/fōmit<3>|g=m}} fōmes m (genitive fōmitis); third declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|fōmes/fōmit<3>}} Forms: fōmes [canonical, masculine], fōmitis [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], fōmes [nominative, singular], fōmitēs [nominative, plural], fōmitis [genitive, singular], fōmitum [genitive, plural], fōmitī [dative, singular], fōmitibus [dative, plural], fōmitem [accusative, singular], fōmitēs [accusative, plural], fōmite [ablative, singular], fōmitibus [ablative, plural], fōmes [singular, vocative], fōmitēs [plural, vocative]
  1. tinder, kindling Tags: declension-3
    Sense id: en-fomes-la-noun-KYyD5k~l Categories (other): Latin masculine nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the third declension: 36 22 42
  2. (Medieval Latin) tinderbox Tags: Medieval-Latin, declension-3
    Sense id: en-fomes-la-noun-cgIiKcD9 Categories (other): Medieval Latin, Latin masculine nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the third declension: 36 22 42
  3. (New Latin, medicine) fomite Tags: New-Latin, declension-3 Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en-fomes-la-noun-631koqwg Categories (other): New Latin, Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries, Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin masculine nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Pages with 5 entries: 25 18 18 6 2 31 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 22 18 18 3 1 37 Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 7 2 91 Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the third declension: 36 22 42 Topics: medicine, sciences

Noun [Middle English]

Head templates: {{head|enm|noun form}} fomes
  1. plural of fome Tags: form-of, plural Form of: fome
    Sense id: en-fomes-enm-noun-yvmnor1A Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries

Noun [Portuguese]

Head templates: {{head|pt|noun form}} fomes
  1. plural of fome Tags: form-of, plural Form of: fome
    Sense id: en-fomes-pt-noun-yvmnor1A Categories (other): Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries, Portuguese entries with incorrect language header

Adjective [Spanish]

Head templates: {{head|es|adjective form}} fomes
  1. plural of fome Tags: form-of, plural Form of: fome
    Sense id: en-fomes-es-adj-yvmnor1A Categories (other): Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries, Spanish entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1773, Gentleman's Magazine, number 43, page 554:",
          "text": "If this putrid ferment could be more immediately corrected, a stop would probably be put to the flux, and the fomes of the disease likewise removed.",
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        {
          "text": "Toys are common fomites.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1803, Medical & Physical Journal, number 10, page 213:",
          "text": "I cannot say that I have known it spread from fomites.",
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          "fomite",
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          "substance"
        ],
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          "able"
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          "communicate",
          "communicate"
        ],
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          "infection"
        ],
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          "people",
          "people"
        ]
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        "(archaic, medicine) Synonym of fomite: a substance able to communicate infection between people."
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            "synonym",
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      ]
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        {
          "ref": "1658, John Owen, Of Temptation, page 126:",
          "text": "Naturall tempers... prove a great Fomes of sinne.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Anything which similarly facilitates the spread of something similarly deleterious."
      ],
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        [
          "Anything",
          "anything"
        ],
        [
          "similarly",
          "similarly"
        ],
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          "facilitate",
          "facilitate"
        ],
        [
          "spread",
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          "something"
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          "deleterious",
          "deleterious"
        ]
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        "(archaic, figurative) Anything which similarly facilitates the spread of something similarly deleterious."
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      ]
    }
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfəʊmiːz/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfoʊ.miːz/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fomes"
}

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  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        {
          "english": "And Achates first struck a spark from flint, and caught the fire on leaves, and so he spread dry fuel around, and hastened a flame within the tinder.",
          "ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.174–176",
          "roman": "nūtrīmenta dedit, rapuitque in fōmite flammam.",
          "text": "Ac prīmum silicī scintillam excūdit Achātēs,\nsuccēpitque ignem foliīs, atque ārida circum"
        }
      ],
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      ]
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        "Medieval Latin"
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        "tinderbox"
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        "(Medieval Latin) tinderbox"
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        "(New Latin, medicine) fomite"
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        "sciences"
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfoː.mes/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈfoːmɛs̠]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfo.mes/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈfɔːmes]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
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}

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          "fome#Portuguese"
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  "lang": "Spanish",
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  ],
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}

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