4m ( Internet leet ) 4rum ( Internet leet ) FromLatin forum ( “ public market place, forum ” ) .Doublet offuero anddoor .
forum (plural forums or fora )
A place fordiscussion . Agathering for the purpose of discussion; asymposium . Aform of discussion involving apanel of presenters and often participation by members of the audience. ( Internet ) An Internetmessage board where users can post messages regarding one or more topics of discussion.Trish was an admin on threeforums , and had no trouble at all when it came to moderating them.
( historical ) Asquare ormarketplace in a Roman town, used for publicbusiness andcommerce .The English pluralforums is preferred to the Latin pluralfora in everyday English usage.
Ref:Modern English Usage , 2nd Edition, ed. Sir Ernest Gowers, Oxford 1968 (article '-um', p.658). Also, "The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style," by Bryan A. Garner. Berkley Books, 2000, (p. 156). (In the Internet senses):
gathering for the purpose of discussion
Borrowed fromLatin forum . The sense “Internet forum” comes fromEnglish forum .
IPA (key ) : /ˈfoː.rʏm/ Hyphenation:fo‧rum forum n (plural fora or forums ,diminutive forumpje n )
forum ( ancient Roman marketplace ) forum ( venue, medium, vehicle; general place of exchange ) Internet forum Synonym: internetforum All senses can use the pluralfora . The pluralforums is predominantly used for the sense “Internet forum”.
forum m (plural forums )
forum Internet forum FromDutch forum , fromLatin forum .
IPA (key ) : /ˈforum/ Hyphenation:fo‧rum forum
forum ( a place for discussion ) institution ,body Synonyms: lembaga ,wadah meeting ,session ,assembly Synonym: sidang Unadapted borrowing fromEnglish forum , borrowed fromLatin forum .Doublet offoro .
forum m (invariable )
forum ( gathering for the purposes of discussion ) ( by extension, usually capitalized ) venue ,auditorium ,arena ( Internet ) forum ( message board ) forum in Treccani.it –Vocabolario Treccani on line , Istituto dell'Enciclopedia ItalianaFromProto-Italic *fworom , from earlier*θworom , fromProto-Indo-European *dʰwor-om ( “ enclosure, courtyard, i.e. something enclosed by the door, or the place outside, i.e. through the door ” ) , from*dʰwer- ( “ door, gate ” ) .
Cognate withforis ,forās ,Old Church Slavonic дворъ ( dvorŭ ,“ court, courtyard ” ) ,Sanskrit द्वार ( dvā́ra ,“ door, gate, passage ” ) andLithuanian dvãras ( “ estate ” ) .
forum n (genitive forī ) ;second declension
public place ,marketplace ,forum Second-declension noun (neuter).
Italo-Romance: Gallo-Romance: Ibero-Romance:Old Galician-Portuguese:foro Old Spanish:fuero Borrowings (in the non-Internet senses outside of English):
“forum ”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879 ),A Latin Dictionary , Oxford: Clarendon Press “forum ”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891 ),An Elementary Latin Dictionary , New York: Harper & Brothers "forum ", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “forum ”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934 ),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français , Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894 ),Latin Phrase-Book [1] , London:Macmillan and Co. (ambiguous) at home; in one's native country:domi (opp.foris )(ambiguous) credit has disappeared:fides (de foro) sublata est (Leg. Agr. 2. 3. 8)(ambiguous) to shun publicity:publico carere, forum ac lucem fugere “forum ”, inThe Perseus Project (1999 ),Perseus Encyclopedia [2] “forum ”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898 ),Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities , New York: Harper & Brothers “forum ”, inWilliam Smith et al., editor (1890 ),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities , London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin forum n (definite singular forumet ,indefinite plural fora or forumer ,definite plural foraene or foruma or forumene )
aforum (place for discussion, either on the Internet or in real life ) forum n (definite singular forumet ,indefinite plural forum ,definite plural foruma )
aforum (as above ) FromLatin forum .Doublet ofdwór ( “ court, courtyard ” ) .
forum n
forum ( all senses ) forum inWielki słownik języka polskiego , Instytut Języka Polskiego PANforum in Polish dictionaries at PWNBorrowed fromLatin forum .
forum n (plural forumuri )
forum FromLatin forum .
IPA (key ) : /fǒːrum/ Hyphenation:fo‧rum fórum m inan (Cyrillic spelling фо́рум )
forum forum n
aforum (place, gathering, or group) ( Internet ) aforum ( historical ) aforum FromLatin forum .
forum (definite accusative forumu ,plural forumlar )
forum Internet forum