inform

Meanings

Verb

• To instruct, train (usually in matters of knowledge).
• To communicate knowledge to.
• To impart information or knowledge.
• To act as an informer; denounce.
• To give form or character to; to inspire (with a given quality); to affect, influence (with a pervading principle, idea etc.).
• To make known, wisely and/or knowledgeably.
• To direct, guide.
• To take form; to become visible or manifest; to appear.

Adjective

• Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

Origin

• From Middle English informen, enformen, borrowed from Old French enformer, informer, from Latin īnfōrmō ("to shape, form, train, instruct, educate"), from in- + fōrma, equivalent to in- + form.
• Latin īnfōrmis