foras

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

Alternative forms

• forīs (in Vulgar Latin)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer- (“door, gate”); compare foris, forum.

Pronunciation

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

Adverb

forās (not comparable)

1. outside, outdoors (destination)

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, 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
    

Verb

foras

1. Second-person singular (tu) pluperfect indicative of ser
2. Second-person singular (tu) pluperfect indicative of ir

Noun

foras m

1. plural of fora

Noun

foras

1. indefinite genitive singular of fora