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Latin
Etymology
From forum + -ēnsis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
forēnsis (neuter forēnse); third-declension two-termination adjective
- of or pertaining to the market or forum
- public
- (Late Latin, Christianity) lay (non-clerical)
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Synonyms
Descendants
References
- “forensis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “forensis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- forensis 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)
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to shun publicity: forensi luce carere
- forensis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “forensis”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 442
- forensis in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016