English
transform
Transform comes from Latin transformo ‘to transform’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtransformo‘to transform’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400transformer
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600transfourmer
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500transformen‘to shapeshift’
- Englishearliest quotation 1598–1599transform
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtransformo‘to transform’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400transformer
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600transfourmer
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500transformen‘to shapeshift’
- Englishearliest quotation 1598–1599transform
Earliest quotation: 1598–1599, Much Adoe about Nothing: “Love may transform me to an oyster.”
A compound of trāns- + fōrma + fōrmō ‘to shape, form, fashion, format’
Ancient Greek μορφή ‘shape, form’
Latin fōrma
Ancient Greek μορφή ‘shape, form’
Latin fōrma
Latin fōrmō ‘to shape, form, fashion, format’
Every English word from Latin transformo
Today it means
verb To change greatly the appearance or form of.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin transformo / transform