formas

Formas is the plural form of forma in Spanish and Portuguese, meaning form, shape, outline, or type. The word traces to Latin forma and shares cognates in related Romance languages. In everyday usage, formas can refer to physical shapes as well as more abstract or conventional categories.

In geometry and design, formas denotes two- and three-dimensional shapes such as circles, squares, spheres, pyramids, and more complex solids. In visual arts and architecture, the term is used to discuss the organization of mass, contours, and space—the visible form of an artwork or structure and how it relates to function and meaning.

In linguistics and philology, formas refers to the different inflected or conjugated forms of a word, including tense, aspect, mood, number, gender, case, and person. For example, in Spanish, verbs have multiple formas: hablo, hablas, habla, and so on, derived from the same infinitive.

In information technology and user experience, forms are interactive elements that collect data from users, such as text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, and submission controls. They rely on a structure of labels, input types, and validation to ensure data quality.

In philosophy and art theory, form is a core concept describing the essential structure or organizing principle of an object, distinct from its material substance. The plural formas might appear in discussions that compare kinds of form across disciplines.