forus

Uncertain. Compare Ancient Greek -φόρος (-phóros, “-bearing”), Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “a passage; passage-way; ford; bridge”), Old High German bara, para (“a bar; barrier”).

forus m (genitive forī); second declension

1. (nautical) a gangway
2. (in a circus or stadium) a row of seats
3. a cell of bees

Second-declension noun.

• “forus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “forus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "forus", 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)
• 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
    

• IPA^(key): [ˈɸorus]

forus n (genitive foris or forais)

1. stable foundation
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 63^c6

     .i. oldate inna foris [sic] diar n-athraib

     than the foundations of our fathers

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 15^d34

     í forus cen oclatid

     in firmness without boldness

2. (law) dwelling, residence, household (of humans or contractual animals)

The masculine o-stem plural foris attested in the Milan glosses is universally considered to be a scribal error.

• béim forais

• Middle Irish: forus
  • Irish: foras
  • Scottish Gaelic: foras

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “forus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language