## Meanings
1. To tell someone about something officially or formally.
2. To tell the police or someone in authority about another person's wrongdoing.
3. To influence or shape something such as ideas or actions.

## Examples
- Please inform us if your address changes.
- A neighbor informed on the smugglers.
- A strong sense of justice informs all of her work.

## Synonyms
- advise
- apprise
- discuss
- enlighten
- impart
- notify
- peach
- snitch
- tell

## Antonyms
- disinform
- encrypt
- misguide
- misinform
- mislead
- withhold

## Derived Forms
- informance
- informant
- information
- informative
- informatory
- informed
- informee
- informer
- misinform
- overinform
- preinform
- reinform

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: informen
- Root: enformer
- Root: īnfōrmō

## Etymology
From Middle English informen, enformen, borrowed from Old French enformer, informer (“to train, instruct, inform”), from Latin īnfōrmō (“to shape, form, train, instruct, educate”), from in- (“into”) + fōrma (“form, shape”), equivalent to in- + form.

## AI Etymology
Inform comes from Middle English informen, enformen, borrowed from Old French enformer, informer (“to train, instruct, inform”), from Latin īnfōrmō (“to shape, form, train, instruct, educate”), from in- (“into”) + fōrma (“form, shape”), equivalent to in- + form. The analysis is mainly morphological: the modern verbal form is built from the named base and affix.

## Topics
- Law & Government

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