foras

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See also: forás and föras

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

foras

  1. second-person singular past historic of forer

Galician

Etymology 1

Inflected form of ir (“to go”).

Verb

foras

  1. second-person singular pluperfect indicative of ir

Etymology 2

Inflected form of ser (“to be”).

Verb

foras

  1. second-person singular pluperfect indicative of ser

Interlingua

Preposition

foras

  1. outside of

Latin

Etymology

Accusative plural case of some obsolete noun *fora, from Proto-Italic *fworā, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer- (“door, gate”), whence also forīs.

Forās is mostly of direction, forīs of location.

Pronunciation

Adverb

forās (not comparable)

  1. outside, outdoors (destination)
    Synonyms: forīs, extrinsecus
    Antonyms: intro, intrā, penitus
    Foras ire.
    To go outside.

Descendants

References

  • “foras”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “foras”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • foras in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • foras in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to become known, become a topic of common conversation (used of things): foras efferri, palam fieri, percrebrescere, divulgari, in medium proferri, exire, emanare
    • to go out of the house: foras exire (Plaut. Amph. 1. 2. 35)
    • to turn some one out of the house: foras mittere aliquem

Portuguese

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: fo‧ras

Noun

foras m

  1. plural of fora

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: fo‧ras

Verb

foras

  1. second-person singular pluperfect indicative of ir
  2. second-person singular pluperfect indicative of ser

Swedish

Noun

foras

  1. indefinite genitive singular of fora

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