hamiformis

First attested in an index in 1651 and in running text in 1806; formed as hāmus (“hook”) +‎ fōrma (“shape”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /haː.miˈfoːr.mis/, [häːmɪˈfoːrmɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.miˈfor.mis/, [ämiˈfɔrmis]

hāmifōrmis (neuter hāmifōrme); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. (New Latin) hook-shaped, hamiform
   • 1651, Marco Aurelio Severino, Vipera Pythia, “Index Rerum”, I

     Icon dentis hamiformis. 348.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1806, Annales du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, IX, page 267:

     Appendix in singulâ valvâ simplex, inter alas eidem carinæ suprà adnata, infrà libera et à carinâ discedens, complanata septi æmula, sed valvâ angustior (undè loculi non omninò distincti), incurvata hamiformis basi bidentata dentibus latere exteriore seminiferis.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

• English: hamiform