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Latin
Etymology
For forica taberna "a shed outside", containing unattested *foricus (“being outside, public”), from forīs (“outside”) + -icus. Compare Proto-Slavic *dvorьcь.
Pronunciation
Noun
forica f (genitive foricae); first declension
- public latrine, restroom
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- “forica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “forica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- forica 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)
- “forica”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “forica”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 527