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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic*fworom, from earlier *θworom, from Proto-Indo-European*dʰwor-om(“enclosure, courtyard, i.e. something enclosed by the door, or the place outside, i.e. through the door”), from *dʰwer-(“door, gate”).
“forum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“forum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
forum 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)
forum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
(ambiguous) at home; in one's native country: domi (opp. foris)
(ambiguous) credit has disappeared: fides (de foro) sublata est (Leg. Agr. 2. 3. 8)
(ambiguous) to shun publicity: publico carere, forum ac lucem fugere
“forum”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
“forum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“forum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin