Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 728.forum on page 728
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forum is a Latin Noun that primarily means marketplace.
Definitions for forum
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
marketplace, forum
English derivatives:
forensic
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
A public square in the centre of a town, piazza. (b) (w. distinguishing names, of various great squares in Rome). (c) (as a centre for buying and selling) a market; (esp., w. adj., etc., denoting the commodity sold there). (d) the people in the street, the general public. (e) in ~o, outside one's home, in public.
- 2
(spec.) The Forum Romanum, the main square in Rome. (b) (as the scene of public entertainments). (c) (as the scene of funeral eulogies).
- 3
The forum at Rome (for in other cities) as a centre for banking, 'the Exchange'; ~o cedere, to go bankrupt.
Sentences with forum
Latin to English
Civēs ad Forum vēnērunt ōratiōnem audiendī causā.Compare The citizens went to the Forum for the sake of hearing the speech (better English, to hear the speech).
Sī Rōmae erātis, saepe ad Forum ibātis.Compare If you were in Rome, you often went to the Forum.
Quis ipse domus ego opus est, careo forum?Compare What need have I of my home itself, if excluded from the forum?
Declension table for forum
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | forum | fora |
| Gen. | forī | forōrum |
| Dat. | forō | forīs |
| Acc. | forum | fora |
| Abl. | forō | forīs |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 174.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 728.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 124.
Bibliography
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Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
Francese, Christopher. "Latin Core Vocabulary." Dickinson College Commentaries. Last modified 2014. http://dcc.dickinson.edu/latin-vocabulary-list.
Gildersleeve, Basil L., and Gonzales Lodge. Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar: Third Edition, Revised, and Enlarged. 3rd ed. London, England: Macmillan and Co., 1903.
Glare, Peter G.W. Oxford Latin Dictionary. Vols. 1-8. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1982.
Krüger, Bernd. "Latin Conjugation Tables." Cactus2000. Accessed May 5, 2023. https://latin.cactus2000.de/index.en.php.
Pierson, Nick. "Sound of Text." Accessed October 26, 2019. https://soundoftext.com.
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Wiktionary Contributors. "Victionarium." Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Updated March 18, 2019. https://la.wiktionary.org/wiki/Victionarium:Pagina_prima.
Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "forum, forī (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 25, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/forum-fori.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 174.forum, forī on page 174
