foris Latin · revision 4729

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=Plautus|origins=ine-pro *dʰwṓr}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈfɔ.rɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈfɔː.ris]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''foris''' ''f'' (genitive foris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is mostly plural, ''forēs'', for a folding door.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*fwor-i-]], [[inh|ine-pro|*dʰuō̆r-|t=door]], a root noun, perhaps used only in the plural or dual.^(de Vaan 2008) The adverbs [[forās]] and ''forīs'' continue cases of a stem [[m|la|*forā-]], “to the door” and “at the door”.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sa|द्वार्|tr=dvā́r-|t=door, gate]], [[grc|θύρα|tr=thúra|t=door]], [[lt|dùrys|t=door]], [[cu|двьрь|tr=dvĭrĭ|t=door]], [[cy|dor|t=door]] and [[en|door]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus uses it of a door creaking open.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was the door of a house or room, in the plural the two leaves of a folding door, and an entrance or opening, as of a beehive.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Plautus often has ''foris crepuit'' “the door creaked”.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Döderlein contrasts [[ostium]], any door, and [[iānua]], the house door.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ In medieval Latin ''forēs'' was a door or gate, an entrance, a frontier, and a beginning.^(MLW)^(DMLBS) The adverb “outside” survives as [[it|fuori]] and [[fr|hors]], and Medieval Latin forms from it gave English ''foreign'' and probably ''forest''.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of a creaking door.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1300 – English ''foreign'' is recorded, from Medieval Latin ''forāneus'', from ''forīs''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|door]]; in the plural, a folding door, double doors.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # An [[m|en|entrance]], opening.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A border; a beginning.^(MLW)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[forīnsecus]]

+ * [[biforis]]

+ * [[biforus]]

+ * [[foricula]]

+ * [[quadriforis]]

+ * [[multiforis]]

+ * [[multiforus]]

+ * [[septiforis]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[forum]]

+ * [[forās]]

+ * [[en|foreign]]

+ * [[en|forest]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The adverb ''forīs'' meant “out of doors, outside, abroad”, and [[forās]] “to the outside”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}