fomento

fomento

1. first-person singular present indicative of fomentar

• IPA^(key): /foˈmen.to/
• Rhymes: -ento
• Hyphenation: fo‧mén‧to

From Latin fōmentum.

fomento m (plural fomenti)

1. poultice
2. trouble, foment

• fomentare

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fomento

1. first-person singular present indicative of fomentare

• fomento in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From fōmentum (“poultice”) + -ō (denominative verb suffix).

fōmentō (present infinitive fōmentāre, perfect active fōmentāvī, supine fōmentātum); first conjugation (Late Latin)

1. (medicine) to foment; apply a (hot) poultice
2. to pour hot water over; bathe something in hot water
3. (figuratively) to soothe

• fōmentātiō

• → Old French: fomenter (learned)
  • → English: foment
  • > French: fomenter (inherited)

Inflected form of fōmentum.

fōmentō

1. dative/ablative singular of fōmentum

• “fomento”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fomento”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “fomentare”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC

• Rhymes: -ẽtu
• Hyphenation: fo‧men‧to

From Latin fomentum.

• Rhymes: -eɾu, -ejɾu, -ɐjɾu
• Hyphenation: gra‧ba‧tei‧ro

fomento m (plural fomentos)

1. instigation, incitement
2. development, promotion or stimulation of activity

   Banco de Fomento ― Development Bank

   fomento do turismo ― promotion of tourism

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fomento

1. first-person singular present indicative of fomentar

• “fomento”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “fomento”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /foˈmento/ [foˈmẽn̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: fo‧men‧to

Borrowed from Latin fōmentum.

fomento m (plural fomentos)

1. stimulus, animus, impulse
2. development, promotion, building (administrative action for promoting a useful result)

   Ministerio de Fomento ― Ministry of Development

3. (medicine) a wet cloth which is applied to the skin for medicinal purposes, usually accompanied by heat

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fomento

1. first-person singular present indicative of fomentar

• “fomento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025