forestis
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Esperanto
[edit]Verb
[edit]forestis
- past of foresti
Latin
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Likely from Proto-West Germanic *furhisti.
alternative proposed etymology
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Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]forestis f (genitive forestis); third declension (Early Medieval Latin)
- a large area reserved for the use of the King or nobility, often a forest and often for hunting or fishing
- a forest in general
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun (i-stem).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | forestis | forestēs |
| genitive | forestis | forestium |
| dative | forestī | forestibus |
| accusative | forestem | forestēs forestīs |
| ablative | foreste | forestibus |
| vocative | forestis | forestēs |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Old Catalan: forest
- Franco-Provençal: forêt
- Old French: forest (see there for further descendants)
- Occitan: forèst
Reflexes of the variant foresta: (possibly all via Old French)
- Old French: foreste
- Italian: foresta
- → Maltese: foresta
- Old Occitan: foresta
- Piedmontese: foresta
- Portuguese: floresta
- Sicilian: furesta
- Spanish: floresta
References
[edit]- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “forestis”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 443
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “forestis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 709
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]forestīs
Categories:
- Esperanto non-lemma forms
- Esperanto verb forms
- Latin terms borrowed from Proto-West Germanic
- Latin terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin third declension nouns
- Latin feminine nouns in the third declension
- Latin feminine nouns
- Medieval Latin
- Early Medieval Latin
- Latin non-lemma forms
- Latin noun forms