fóra

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Verb

fóra

1. Pre-2016 spelling of fora (first and third singular conditional of ser and ésser).

Usage notes

The spelling fóra was deprecated in the 2016 spelling reform. The old spelling can still be used for metalinguistic transcriptions, or when the intended meaning is not clear from the context. See Appendix:Catalan orthography.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -oːra
• Hyphenation: fó‧ra

Etymology 1

Noun

fóra

1. inflection of fórum:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Etymology 2

Noun

fóra

1. (expressive) accusative singular of fór (only in expressions like "dát fóra" or "mít fóra", meaning "to give a head start" or "to have a head start")

   Dal jsem mu 10 metrů fóra a stejně jsem vyhrál.

   I gave him a 10-metre head start and I still won.

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese fora, from Latin forās (“outside”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer- (“door; gate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Adverb

fóra

1. outside (on the outside of a building or location)

   Synonym: dentro

Preposition

fóra

1. notwithstanding; except (with the exception of)
   • 1753, Diego Cernadas, Adán non pudo pecar:

     Fixo penitencias rexas
     Adàn de foles vestido,
     Que os foles, fora ô curtido,
     ô mismo sòn que pellexas

     Adam, wearing bags,
     made hard penitences,
     because bags, notwithstanding the tanning,
     the same are with pelts

Interjection

fóra!

1. go away!; out! (demanding that someone leave)

References

• “fora” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “fóra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “fóra” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Further reading

• “fóra” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.