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FIRM , an adjective originally indicating a dense or close consistency, hence steady, unshaken, unchanging or fixed. This word, in M. Eng. ferme, is derived through the French , from Lat. firmus. The medieval Latin substantive firma meant a fixed payment, either in the way of rent, composition for periodic payments, &c.; and this word, often represented by " firm " in translations of medieval documents, has produced the English
late
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English
century . From a transferred use came the meaning of a business house
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