foris

From Proto-Italic *fworis, from earlier *θworis, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwṓr, from *dʰwer- (“door, gate”).

Cognate with forās, forīs, forum, Sanskrit द्वार् (dvā́r), Ancient Greek θύρα (thúra) and Old English duru and dor (English door).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɔ.rɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɔː.ris]

foris f (genitive foris); third declension

1. door
2. gate
3. opening
4. entrance

   Synonyms: ingressus, iānua, initium, līmen, porta, ingressiō, vestibulum

   Antonym: abitus

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• biforis
• Forculus
• foricula

Old ablative case of Etymology 1 (*θworeys). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer- (“door, gate”), whence also forās.

Forīs is mostly of location, forās of direction.

• ā forīs (Late Latin)
• dē forīs (Late Latin, proscribed)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɔ.riːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɔː.ris]

forīs (not comparable)

1. outside, outdoors (location)

   Synonyms: foras, extrinsecus

   Antonyms: intro, intrā, penitus

   Foris cenare.

   To dine outside.

• forīnsecus

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɔ.riːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɔː.ris]

forīs

1. dative/ablative plural of forum

• “foris”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “foris”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "foris", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• foris in Gaffiot, 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) to knock at the door: ostium, fores pulsare
    
  • (ambiguous) to open, shut the door: ostium, fores aperire, claudere
    
  • (ambiguous) to bolt the door: fores obserare