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Esperanto
Verb
forestis
- past of foresti
Latin
Etymology 1
Likely from Proto-West Germanic *furhisti.
alternative proposed etymology
- Shortening of an expression like silva *forestis, the latter an unattested adjective derived from forās (“outside”) or forum (“court”) + -est(r)is (adjective ending). In the former case the etymological sense would perhaps be "forest outside of public use" and in the latter case "forest belonging to the court".[1]
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Noun
forestis f (genitive forestis); third declension (Early Medieval Latin)
- a large area reserved for the use of the King or nobility, often a forest and often for hunting or fishing
- a forest in general
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Derived terms
Descendants
Reflexes of the variant foresta: (possibly all via Old French)
References
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “forestis”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 443
Etymology 2
Noun
forestīs
- dative/ablative plural of foresta