fomes – English noun declension

English noun forms of fomes

Noun: fomes
Singularfomes
Pluralfomites

Sample Sentences

  • If this putrid ferment could be more immediately corrected, a stop would probably be put to the flux, and the fomes of the disease likewise removed. [1773, Gentleman's Magazine, number 43, page 554:]
  • Toys are common fomites.
  • I cannot say that I have known it spread from fomites. [1803, Medical & Physical Journal, number 10, page 213:]
  • Naturall tempers... prove a great Fomes of sinne. [1658, John Owen, Of Temptation, page 126:]

Nouns inflected like fomes

eques, fomes, limes, vicecomes, termes, stipes,

Etymology

From medical Latin fōmes (“fomite”), a figurative extension of its original sense of kindling, tinder, etc. Gradually supplanted in use by fomite, a mistaken backformation of its plural form fomites, from Latin fōmitēs. See: Latin Nouns 'fōmes'.