English
enform
Enform comes from French enformer.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentenformer
- Englishearliest quotation 1596enform
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–presentenformer
- Englishearliest quotation 1596enform
Earliest quotation: 1596, Edmund Spenser, Book VI, Canto VI: “And in the minds of men had great insight…”
Every English word from French enformer
Today it means
verb To form; to fashion; to shape
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French enformer / enform