fromage

From Middle French froumaige, formage, from Old French formage, fourmage, frumage, fromage, from Vulgar Latin, Late Latin formāticum, from *formāticus [caseus], from Latin formō, formāre; cognates include Occitan and Catalan formatge, Italian formaggio.

• IPA^(key): /fʁɔ.maʒ/

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fromage m (plural fromages)

1. cheese

• fromager, fromagère
• fromagerie

• Haitian Creole: fromaj
• Louisiana Creole French: fromaj
• Mauritian Creole: fromaz
• Seychellois Creole: fromaz
• Esperanto: fromaĝo

• “fromage” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• fronmage (Jersey)

From Old French fromage, from Vulgar Latin, Late Latin formāticum, from Latin formō, formāre (“shape, form, fashion, format”, verb).

fromage m (plural fromages)

1. (Guernsey) cheese

• frumage
• formage
• fourmage

From Vulgar Latin, Late Latin formāticum, from *formāticus [caseus], from Latin formō, formāre.

fromage m (oblique plural fromages, nominative singular fromages, nominative plural fromage)

1. cheese

• Gallo: fórmaij
• Italian: formaggio (borrowing)
• Middle French: formage, froumaige
  • French: fromage
• Norman: fronmage, fromage
• Walloon: froumadje