firma

firma

1. inflection of firmar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Spanish firma.

fīrma

1. A signature.
   • 1586: testimony of Don Juan

     auh yn don diego de velasco ynic quineltilia huel ymatica quitlalia yn ifirma yhuã ytoca

     But to verify it don Diego de Velasco with his very own hand places here his signature and name.-

   • 1645: sale of house and land by Agustín de Santiago to Juan Gómez Monteagudo, Spaniard, and wife

     ypanpa nican nictlallia nofirma

     wherefore I set down here my signature

   • 1720: confirmation of the status of fields belonging to Santa Elena

     ca nican tictlalia yn tofirma

     Here we set down our signatures

• Lockhart, James (1991) Nahuas and Spaniards: Postconquest Central Mexican History and Philology, Stanford: Stanford University Press, pages 87, 100, 104

From Italian firma (“signature of a company”).

firma

1. firm (company)

   Synonym: şirket

• Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

Borrowed from Italian firma.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɪrma]

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firma f

1. firm (business)

• korporace
• podnik
• společnost

• “firma”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “firma”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

From Italian firma.

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firma f (plural firma's, diminutive firmaatje n)

1. a large-scale company, a firm

• bedrijf, zaak, handelsonderneming

• → Indonesian: firma

From Latin firmus.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfirma]

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• Rhymes: -irma
• Hyphenation: fir‧ma

firma (accusative singular firman, plural firmaj, accusative plural firmajn)

1. firm (solid, fixed, or steadfast)

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firma (genitive firma, partitive firmat)

1. (business) firm, company

   Synonym: ettevõte

• “firma”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
• “firma”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “firma”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• firma in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

From German Firma, from Italian firma (“signature”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfirmɑ/, [ˈfirmɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -irmɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): fir‧ma

firma

1. (informal) firm, company, business

   Synonyms: yhtiö, yritys

2. (military slang) the Finnish Defense Forces

• “firma”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• farmi

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiɾma/ [ˈfiɾ.mɐ]
• Rhymes: -iɾma
• Hyphenation: fir‧ma

From Old Galician-Portuguese firma. Deverbal from firmar.

firma f (plural firmas)

1. signature

   Synonym: sinatura

2. firm, business

   Synonym: compañía

• firmar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “firma”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “firma”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “firma”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “firma”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “firma”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

firma

1. inflection of firmar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Portuguese firmar-se.

firma

1. to stand

From Dutch firma, from Italian firma, from Latin firmāre, from firmus, from Proto-Italic *fermos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-mo-s (“holding”), from the root *dʰer- (“to hold”). Doublet of darma and derma.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɪrma]
• Hyphenation: fir‧ma

firma (first-person possessive firmaku, second-person possessive firmamu, third-person possessive firmanya)

1. (business) firm, general partnership.

• “firma” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Back-formation from firmare, from Latin firmāre, from firmus; cognates include English firm (adjective). Doublet of dharma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfir.ma/
• Rhymes: -irma
• Hyphenation: fìr‧ma

firma f (plural firme)

1. signature

• → Bulgarian: фи́рма (fírma)
• → Crimean Tatar: firma
• → Czech: firma
• → Dutch: firma
  • → Indonesian: firma
• → English: firm (noun)
• → Finnish: firma
• → Georgian: ფირმა (pirma)
• → German: Firma
  • → Romanian: firmă
  • → Turkish: firma
• → Macedonian: фирма (firma)
• → Northern Kurdish: fîrma
• → Norwegian:
  • Norwegian Bokmål: firma
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: firma
• → Polish: firma
• → Portuguese: firma
• → Russian: фи́рма (fírma)
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Latin: fȋrma
  • Cyrillic: фи̑рма
• → Swedish: firma

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

firma

1. inflection of firmare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• firmatario

• farmi

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

• ferma

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfir.ma/, [ˈfɪrmä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfir.ma/, [ˈfirmä]

firma f (genitive firmae); first declension (Medieval Latin)

1. tax, tribute
2. rent
3. farm

First-declension noun.

• firma burgi

• Old French: ferme
  • Middle French: ferme
    • French: ferme
      • → Romanian: fermă
  • → Middle English: ferme, farme, ferm, fyrme (Late Middle English), feorme, veorme (Early Middle English) (in part)
    • English: farm
      • → Dutch: farm
      • → Finnish: farmi
      • → German: Farm
      • → Portuguese: farme, farma
      • → Yiddish: פֿאַרם (farm)
      • → Spanish: farmear
      • → Thai: ฟาร์ม (faam)
    • Scots: ferm
    • → Welsh: fferm
• Occitan: ferma

• firma 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)
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to enjoy good health: bona (firma, prospera) valetudine esse or uti (vid. sect. VI. 8., note uti...)
    
  • a good constitution: firma corporis constitutio or affectio
    

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• firma: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfir.ma/, [ˈfɪrmä]
• firma: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfir.ma/, [ˈfirmä]
• firmā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfir.maː/, [ˈfɪrmäː]
• firmā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfir.ma/, [ˈfirmä]

firma

1. inflection of firmus:
   1. feminine nominative/vocative singular
   2. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative plural

firmā

1. ablative feminine singular of firmus

From Latin firmāre, via Italian firma.

firma n (definite singular firmaet, indefinite plural firma or firmaer, definite plural firmaene)

1. a company (business), a firm

• selskap

• advokatfirma
• firmabil

• “firma” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “firma” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From Latin firmāre, via Italian firma.

firma n (definite singular firmaet, indefinite plural firma, definite plural firmaa)

1. a company (business), a firm

• selskap

• advokatfirma
• firmabil

• “firma” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from Italian firma, from Latin firmāre.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfir.ma/

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• Rhymes: -irma
• Syllabification: fir‧ma

firma f

1. company (in legal context, a corporation)

• firma in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• firma in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -iɾmɐ, (most of Brazil) -iʁmɐ, (Southern Brazil) -iɻma
• Hyphenation: fir‧ma

From Italian firma (“signature”), from Latin firmāre (“to make firm, strengthen, fortify”).

firma f (plural firmas)

1. company

   Synonyms: empresa, companhia

2. (law) signature

   Synonyms: assinatura, rubrica

• firmar
• confirmar

firma

1. inflection of firmar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

firma f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of firmă

Borrowed from Italian firma (“signature”), from Latin firmāre (“to make firm, strengthen, fortify”).

• IPA^(key): /fîːrma/
• Hyphenation: fir‧ma

fȋrma f (Cyrillic spelling фи̑рма)

1. firm, company

   Synonyms: poduzéće, preduzéće; kompànija; tvȑtka

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiɾma/ [ˈfiɾ.ma]

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• Rhymes: -iɾma
• Syllabification: fir‧ma

Deverbal from firmar (“to sign”).

firma f (plural firmas)

1. signature
2. seal
3. (business) company

   Synonym: empresa

• → Bikol Central: pirma
• → Classical Nahuatl: fīrma
• → Tagalog: pirma
• → Yogad: firma
• → Zoogocho Zapotec: firm

• autógrafo
• rúbrica

firma

1. inflection of firmar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “firma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

From Italian firma.

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firma c

1. a firm, a company

• enskild firma

From German firma.

firma (definite accusative firmayı, plural firmalar)

1. firm

Inflection
Nominative	firma
Definite accusative	firmayı
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	firma	firmalar
Definite accusative	firmayı	firmaları
Dative	firmaya	firmalara
Locative	firmada	firmalarda
Ablative	firmadan	firmalardan
Genitive	firmanın	firmaların

Borrowed from Spanish firma.

firma

1. signature