foras

Pronunciation

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Verb

foras

1. second-person singular past historic of forer

Etymology 1

Inflected form of ir (“to go”).

Etymology 2

Inflected form of ser (“to be”).

Preposition

foras

1. outside of

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.

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, 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
    

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

foras

1. indefinite genitive singular of fora

Anagrams

• fasor