amorfs

Via some other European language, ultimately from Ancient Greek ἄμορφος (ámorphos, “without form, shapeless, deformed”), itself from ἀ- (a-, “without”) + μορφή (morphḗ, “form”).

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amorfs (definite amorfais, comparative amorfāks, superlative visamorfākais, adverb amorfi)

1. (physics, chemistry) amorphous (having a non-crystalline structure; with atoms and molecules chaotically distributed)

   dabiskie amorfie ķermeņi ― natural amorphous bodies

   mākslīgie amorfie ķermeņi ― artificial amorphous bodies

   amorfais ogleklis ― amorphous carbon

2. (linguistics, of languages) isolating (having words formed only with roots, without affixes)

   amorfās, izolējošās jeb sakņu valodas ― amorphous, isolating, or root languages