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Foro
foro
foro
Italian
Noun
foro m (plural fori)
Synonyms
- (foramen) forame
Verb
foro
- first-person singular present indicative of forare
Latin
Etymology 1
From Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to pierce, strike”), with e-grade reflex attested in feriō. According to some the verb is denominal from *bʰorH-h₂ (“hole”).
Cognates
From Proto-Indo-European: Lithuanian bárti (“to accuse, scold”), Old Church Slavonic брати (brati, “to fight”), Icelandic berja (“to beat”), English bore. |
Verb
forō (present infinitive forāre, perfect active forāvī, supine forātum); first conjugation
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
Noun
forō
References
- foro in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
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(ambiguous) to knock at the door: ostium, fores pulsare
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(ambiguous) to open, shut the door: ostium, fores aperire, claudere
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(ambiguous) to bolt the door: fores obserare
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(ambiguous) credit has disappeared: fides (de foro) sublata est (Leg. Agr. 2. 3. 8)
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(ambiguous) to knock at the door: ostium, fores pulsare
Mapudungun
Noun
foro (using Raguileo Alphabet)
References
- Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.