"formidable" meaning in French

See formidable in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /fɔʁ.mi.dabl/ Audio: Fr-formidable.ogg Forms: formidables [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin formīdābilis (“formidable, terrible”), from formīdō (“fear, dread”). Etymology templates: {{glossary|loanword|Borrowed}} Borrowed, {{bor|fr|la|formīdābilis||formidable, terrible|g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Latin formīdābilis (“formidable, terrible”), {{bor+|fr|la|formīdābilis|t=formidable, terrible}} Borrowed from Latin formīdābilis (“formidable, terrible”), {{m|la|formīdō|t=fear, dread}} formīdō (“fear, dread”) Head templates: {{fr-adj}} formidable (plural formidables)
  1. (dated or literary) fearsome
    Sense id: en-formidable-fr-adj-niIBQYdh Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 33 67
  2. fantastic, tremendous
    Sense id: en-formidable-fr-adj-eXwUPlR2 Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 33 67
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: formidablement

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for formidable meaning in French (2.1kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "loanword",
        "2": "Borrowed"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "formīdābilis",
        "4": "",
        "5": "formidable, terrible",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Latin formīdābilis (“formidable, terrible”)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "formīdābilis",
        "t": "formidable, terrible"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Latin formīdābilis (“formidable, terrible”)",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "formīdō",
        "t": "fear, dread"
      },
      "expansion": "formīdō (“fear, dread”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin formīdābilis (“formidable, terrible”), from formīdō (“fear, dread”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "formidables",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "formidable (plural formidables)",
      "name": "fr-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "formidablement"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "33 67",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "fearsome"
      ],
      "id": "en-formidable-fr-adj-niIBQYdh",
      "links": [
        [
          "fearsome",
          "fearsome"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "dated or literary",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated or literary) fearsome"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "33 67",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "fantastic, tremendous"
      ],
      "id": "en-formidable-fr-adj-eXwUPlR2",
      "links": [
        [
          "fantastic",
          "fantastic"
        ],
        [
          "tremendous",
          "tremendous"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/fɔʁ.mi.dabl/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Fr-formidable.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7a/Fr-formidable.ogg/Fr-formidable.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Fr-formidable.ogg",
      "text": "audio"
    }
  ],
  "word": "formidable"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "French 3-syllable words",
    "French adjectives",
    "French entries with incorrect language header",
    "French lemmas",
    "French terms borrowed from Latin",
    "French terms derived from Latin",
    "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "French terms with audio links"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "loanword",
        "2": "Borrowed"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "formīdābilis",
        "4": "",
        "5": "formidable, terrible",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Latin formīdābilis (“formidable, terrible”)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "formīdābilis",
        "t": "formidable, terrible"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Latin formīdābilis (“formidable, terrible”)",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "formīdō",
        "t": "fear, dread"
      },
      "expansion": "formīdō (“fear, dread”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin formīdābilis (“formidable, terrible”), from formīdō (“fear, dread”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "formidables",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "formidable (plural formidables)",
      "name": "fr-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "formidablement"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "French dated terms",
        "French literary terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "fearsome"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fearsome",
          "fearsome"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "dated or literary",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated or literary) fearsome"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "fantastic, tremendous"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fantastic",
          "fantastic"
        ],
        [
          "tremendous",
          "tremendous"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/fɔʁ.mi.dabl/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Fr-formidable.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7a/Fr-formidable.ogg/Fr-formidable.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Fr-formidable.ogg",
      "text": "audio"
    }
  ],
  "word": "formidable"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable French dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.