fōrmō āvī, ātus, āre forma, to shape, fashion, form, build: materiam, signum in muliebrem figuram: in Idā Classem, V.: signum e marmore, O.: formatus cum cornibus, depicted, O.

—Fig., to shape, form, regulate, dispose, direct, prepare, compose: verba sicut ceram: ea quae inter se discrepant: consuetudinem: Personam, invent, H.: puerum dictis, H.: poetam, H.: se in mores alcuius, L.: gaudia tacitā mente, imagine, O.