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PHORMIO

Date "PHORMIO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1651. (references)


Specialty Definition: PHORMIO

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Literature

Phormio A parasite who accommodates himself to the humour of everyone. (Terence: Phormio.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: PHORMIO

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Books

  • Terence: The Eunuch, Phormio, the Brothers: A Companion to the Penguin Translation of Betty Radice (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Usage Frequency: PHORMIO

"PHORMIO" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PHORMIO" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Anagrams: PHORMIO

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "h-i-m-o-o-p-r"

-1 letter: morpho.

-2 letters: morph, oomph, poori, primo, promo.

-3 letters: homo, hoop, moor, pooh, poor, prim, prom, romp, room.

-4 letters: him, hip, hop, imp, mho, mir, moo, mop, mor, ohm, oho, ooh, phi, poh, poi, pom, pro, rho, rim, rip, rom.

-5 letters: hi, hm, ho, mi, mo, oh, om, op, or, pi.

 Words containing the letters "h-i-m-o-o-p-r"
 

+1 letter: isomorph.

 

+2 letters: isomorphs.

 

+3 letters: biomorphic, chromophil, dimorphous, geomorphic, hippodrome, hypocorism, isomorphic, microphone, sophomoric, zoomorphic.

 

+4 letters: allomorphic, apomorphine, ectomorphic, endomorphic, halomorphic, hemoprotein, hippodromes, homeporting, homographic, homomorphic, homospories, hypocorisms, hypomorphic, idiomorphic, isomorphism, isomorphous, meromorphic, mesomorphic, mesonephroi, mesotrophic, microphones, microphonic, monitorship, monographic, monomorphic, morphogenic, morphologic, nomographic, phonogramic, photometric, pleochroism, pleomorphic, polymorphic, prothrombin, tomographic, zygomorphic.

 

+5 letters: actinomorphy, allomorphism, apochromatic, apomorphines, automorphism, chemotropism, chromophoric, cosmographic, enantiomorph, endomorphies, endomorphism, heliotropism, hemoproteins, homeomorphic, homomorphism, hydromorphic, hydrotropism, isomorphisms, mesomorphies, microphonics, monitorships, monographing, monomorphism, morphologies, morphologist, morphometric, mothproofing, nomographies, paedomorphic, phonogrammic, photochromic, photometries, phototropism, pleochroisms, pleomorphism, poikilotherm, polychromies, polychroming, polymorphism, prothalamion, prothrombins, pyromorphite, thermotropic, tomographies, zygomorphies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: PHORMIO


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 48 4F 52 4D 49 4F

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01001000 01001111 01010010 01001101 01001001 01001111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#72 &#79 &#82 &#77 &#73 &#79

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0048 004F 0052 004D 0049 004F

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

50424952474349

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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