foras

See also: forás and föras

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

foras

1. second-person singular past historic of forer

Galician

Etymology 1

Inflected form of ir (“to go”).

Verb

foras

1. second-person singular pluperfect indicative of ir

Etymology 2

Inflected form of ser (“to be”).

Verb

foras

1. second-person singular pluperfect indicative of ser

Interlingua

Preposition

foras

1. outside of

Latin

Etymology

Accusative plural case of some obsolete noun *fora, from Proto-Italic *fworā, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer- (“door, gate”), whence also forīs.

Forās is mostly of direction, forīs of location.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.raːs/, [ˈfɔräːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.ras/, [ˈfɔːräs]

Adverb

forās (not comparable)

1. outside, outdoors (destination)

   Synonyms: forīs, extrinsecus

   Antonyms: intro, intrā, penitus

   Foras ire.

   To go outside.

Descendants

• Aromanian: fãrã, afoarã
• Catalan: fora
• French: hors
• Galician: fóra
• Italian: fuori
• Occitan: fòra
• Old Galician-Portuguese: foras, fora
• Piedmontese: fora
• Portuguese: fora, afora
• Romanian: fără, afară
• Sicilian: fora, fuora
• Spanish: fuera, afuera
• Venetan: fora, fuora

References

• “foras”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “foras”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• foras 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)
• foras in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to become known, become a topic of common conversation (used of things): foras efferri, palam fieri, percrebrescere, divulgari, in medium proferri, exire, emanare
    
  • to go out of the house: foras exire (Plaut. Amph. 1. 2. 35)
    
  • to turn some one out of the house: foras mittere aliquem
    

Portuguese

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ.ɾɐs/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ.ɾɐs/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ.ɾɐʃ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ.ɾas/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ.ɾɐʃ/

• Hyphenation: fo‧ras

Noun

foras m

1. plural of fora

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.ɾɐs/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.ɾɐs/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.ɾɐʃ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.ɾas/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.ɾɐʃ/

• Hyphenation: fo‧ras

Verb

foras

1. second-person singular pluperfect indicative of ir
2. second-person singular pluperfect indicative of ser

Swedish

Noun

foras

1. indefinite genitive singular of fora

Anagrams

• fasor