German

Noun

Forum n ‎(genitive Forums, plural Foren)

1. forum

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• 4m (Internet leet)
• 4rum (Internet leet)

Noun

forum ‎(plural forums or fora)

1. A place for discussion.
2. A gathering for the purpose of discussion.
3. A form of discussion involving a panel of presenters and often participation by members of the audience.
4. (Internet) An Internet message board where users can post messages regarding one or more topics of discussion.

   Trish was an admin member on three forums, and had no trouble at all when it came to moderating them.

5. A square or marketplace in a Roman town, used for public business and commerce.

Usage notes

The English plural forums is preferred to the Latin plural fora in normal English usage.

• Ref: Modern English Usage, 2nd Edition, ed. Sir Ernest Gowers, Oxford 1968 (article '-um', p.658).
• Also, "The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style," by Bryan A. Garner. Berkley Books, 2000, (p. 156).

Related terms

• conforaneous (rare)

Translations

French

Etymology

• Borrowing from Latin forum.
• (Internet) Borrowing from English forum.

Pronunciation

Noun

forum m ‎(plural forums)

1. forum
2. forum (for Internet)

Italian

Noun

forum m ‎(invariable)

1. forum (all meanings)

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰworom ‎(“enclosure, courtyard, i.e. something enclosed by the door”), accusative of *dʰwor-. Cognate with Old Church Slavonic дворъ ‎(dvorŭ, “court, courtyard”), Sanskrit द्वार ‎(dvā́ra, “door, gate, passage”) and Lithuanian dvãras ‎(“estate”). This Proto-Indo-European neuter is a derivation of the basic root noun *dʰwer- ‎(“door, gate”) that also gave Latin foris ‎(“door; gate”) and forās ‎(“outdoors”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.rum/, [ˈfɔ.rũ]

Noun

forum n ‎(genitive forī); second declension

1. market-/public place, forum

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “forum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

forum n ‎(definite singular forumet, indefinite plural fora or forumer, definite plural foraene or foruma or forumene)

1. a forum (place for discussion, either on the Internet or in real life)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

forum n ‎(definite singular forumet, indefinite plural forum, definite plural foruma)

1. a forum (as above)

Polish

Etymology

From Latin forum.

Pronunciation

Noun

forum n

1. forum (all senses)

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin forum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fǒːrum/
• Hyphenation: fo‧rum

Noun

fórum m ‎(Cyrillic spelling фо́рум)

1. forum

Declension

Derived terms

• fórumskī