fores

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See also: forés and föres

Catalan

Pronunciation

Verb

fores

  1. inflection of ser:
    1. second-person singular preterite indicative
    2. second-person singular conditional
  2. inflection of ésser:
    1. second-person singular preterite indicative
    2. second-person singular conditional

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

fores

  1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of forer

Galician

Etymology 1

Inflected form of ir (“to go”).

Verb

fores

  1. second-person singular future subjunctive of ir

Etymology 2

Inflected form of ser (“to be”).

Verb

fores

  1. second-person singular future subjunctive of ser

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

A conjugated form of sum.

Verb

forēs

  1. early second-person singular imperfect active subjunctive of sum

Etymology 2

Declined forms of foris.

Noun

forēs f

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of foris

Etymology 3

A conjugated form of forō.

Verb

forēs

  1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of forō

References

  • “fores”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fores 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)
  • fores in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) to knock at the door: ostium, fores pulsare
    • (ambiguous) to open, shut the door: ostium, fores aperire, claudere
    • (ambiguous) to bolt the door: fores obserare
    • (ambiguous) to shun publicity: publico carere, forum ac lucem fugere
  • “fores”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “fores”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: fo‧res

Verb

fores

  1. second-person singular future subjunctive of ir
  2. second-person singular future subjunctive of ser

Ternate

Etymology

From Dutch voorhuis, from Middle Dutch vorehuus.

Pronunciation

Noun

fores

  1. the living room of a house

References

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
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