folklor-o: folklore. Def.: Ico esas nek populala literaturo, nek populala tradicionaro, ma l'ensemblo di la verki, rakonti, kanti, kustumi qui naskis de la populo e karakterizas ol, e lua studiado: VII-279. — DEFR
foment-ar: (tr., med.) to foment, apply warm lotions to; (fig.) to encourage, stir up. — DEFIS
fon-o: (physics) one of a series of the vibrations that make up a sound.
fond-ar: (tr.) to found, establish (ulo, sur ulo); (cf. establisar); -ajo, -uro: that which is founded, establishment, foundation (cf. fundamento). Ex.: Il fondis sua sistemo sur fakti nekontestebla. Fondar komercala firmo, imperio, religio. — DEFIS
fonem-o*: phoneme: the smallest unit of speech that can be used to make one word different from another word.
fonetik-o: phonetics. — DEFIRS
fonetism-o: system for writing phonetic sounds.
fonograf-ar: (tr.) to record (ulo) on a phonograph; -ilo: phonograph; -uro: phonograph-record; plear -ilo: to play a phonograph — DEFIRS
fonolit-o: (min.) phonolite. — DEF
fonologi-o*: phonology. — DEFIRS
fonometr-o: phonometer. — DEFIRS
fonometri-o: phonometry: measuring by a phonometer.
font-o: (pr. and fig.) font, spring: natural source (cf. fonteno); -aquo: spring-water. Ex.: La fonti di Nil. Acensar rivero til la fonto. La fonto di lo bona e di lo mala. Laboro esas la fonto di richaji. Recevar novaji de bona fonto. — EFIRS
fontanel-o: (anat.) fontanel. — DEFIS
fonten-o: (artificial) fountain; -plumo: f. pen. — DEFIR
for: (prep.) far from, away from; -e: (far) away; -a: distant, remote, far distant (de); -ajo: a distant object; distance (prospect); de fore: from a, at a, distance; -esar: to be away; -igar: to remove, send away; - de hike: a great way off (from here); -eso: remoteness; -irar: to go away; -a komerco, navig-ado: foreign trade, navigation. (In composition with verbs «away» as in: for-duktar, -portar, -tirar, -tranar,etc.); il esas for sua patrio: he is away from his fatherland; il vidis il de fore: he saw him from a distance; kad vu volas forirar? do you wish to go away? la soldato forkuris: the soldier ran away. — e
forc-o: (mechan.) force. Ex.: La forci natural esas l'aero, l'aquo, e.c. Forco centripetala.
forcat-o: galley-slave, convict (condemned to hard labor). — FIS
forceps-o: (surg.) forceps, an instrument used in midwifery (cf. pinc-eto). — DEFIS
forej-o: forage, fodder, food for beasts; -ifar: to forage (for fodder); -o-planti: plants fit for fodder. — DEFIRS
forest-o: forest; -ala: pertaining to f.s, silvan; -isto: forester; -o-kultivado: forestry; -izar: to cover with f. — DEFIR
forfet-o: contract, tender (at a stipulated price, whether the contractor lose or gain); -ale: by contract, by the job, at a lump sum; kontratar per forfeto: to engage to do (ulo) by contract. Def.: Kontrato per qua on engajas su exekutar ula laboro po totala sumo fixigita antee; IV-454. — FI
forfikul-o: (ent.) earwig (family: Forficulidae). — IL
forj-ar: (tr.) to forge (metals); -ebla: forgeable; -isto: blacksmith, forger (of iron); -eyo, -erio: smithy, blacksmith's shop, iron works. — EFS
for-jet-ar: (tr.) to throw away (cf. re-pulsar, retro-jetar); (of cards) to discard; -ajo: refuse, waste; -inda: worthy of rejection.
fork-o: (agri.) pitchfork, hayfork, dungfork; (fig.) any two or three-pronged instrument; -eto: tablefork; -atra: forklike, cloven; -o-dento: prong of a f.; -o-pikar: to pierce with a f. — DEFI
for-las-ar: (tr.) to leave, quit (cf. livar).
form-o: form, shape, conformation; -ala: formal; -al-ajo: formality; -al-ismo: formalism; sen- -a: shapeless. — DEFIRS
formac-ar: (tr.) to form, shape; -(ad)o, -uro: formation; -anta, -iva: formative. Ex.: Formacar literi, nubi, triangulo, karaktero. Geologiala formacuro. — DEFIRS
formaldehid-o: (2001) formaldehyde. — DEFIRS
formalin-o: (chem.) formalin. — DEF
format-o: format, shape, size, of a book, thing, computer file; format-igar: to format, to put into a format (book, thing, computer file). — DFIRS
formik-o: (ent.) ant; -eyo: ant-hill, -nest; -umar: (intr.) to swarm, teem, be full of (like ants); -um(ad)o: swarming; (med.) formication. — FIS
