forum

• 4m (Internet leet)
• 4rum (Internet leet)

From Latin forum (“public market place, forum”). Doublet of fuero.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔːɹəm/

  Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɹəm/
• (General Australian, New Zealand, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ˈfoːɹəm/
• Rhymes: -ɔːɹəm
• Hyphenation: fo‧rum

forum (plural forums or fora)

1. A place for discussion.
2. A gathering for the purpose of discussion; a symposium.
3. A form of discussion involving a panel of presenters and often participation by members of the audience.
5. (Internet) An Internet message board where users can post messages regarding one or more topics of discussion.

   Trish was an admin on three forums, and had no trouble at all when it came to moderating them.

7. (historical) A square or marketplace in a Roman town, used for public business and commerce.

The English plural forums is preferred to the Latin plural fora 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).

• conforaneous (rare)

• → Italian: forum
• → Korean: 포럼 (poreom)

Borrowed from Latin forum. The sense “Internet forum” comes from English forum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfoː.rʏm/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: fo‧rum

forum n (plural fora or forums, diminutive forumpje n)

1. forum (ancient Roman marketplace)
2. forum (venue, medium, vehicle; general place of exchange)
3. Internet forum

   Synonym: internetforum

All senses can use the plural fora. The plural forums is predominantly used for the sense “Internet forum”.

• internetforum

• foor

• Most meanings: Learned borrowing from Latin forum.
• Internet: Borrowed from English forum.

• IPA^(key): /fɔ.ʁɔm/

• Audio:

  (file)

forum m (plural forums)

1. forum
2. Internet forum

• “forum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• fora (nonstandard)

From Dutch forum, from Latin forum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈforum/
• Hyphenation: fo‧rum

forum

1. forum (a place for discussion)
2. institution, body

   Synonyms: lembaga, wadah

3. meeting, session, assembly

   Synonym: sidang

• forum on the Indonesian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^id

Unadapted borrowing from English forum, borrowed from Latin forum. Doublet of foro.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ.rum/
• Rhymes: -ɔrum
• Hyphenation: fò‧rum

forum m (invariable)

1. forum (gathering for the purposes of discussion)
2. (by extension, usually capitalized) venue, auditorium, arena
3. (Internet) forum (message board)

• forum in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From Proto-Italic *fworom, from earlier *θworom, from Proto-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 with foris, forās, Old Church Slavonic дворъ (dvorŭ, “court, courtyard”), Sanskrit द्वार (dvā́ra, “door, gate, passage”) and Lithuanian dvãras (“estate”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.rum/, [ˈfɔrʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.rum/, [ˈfɔːrum]

forum n (genitive forī); second declension

1. public place, marketplace, forum

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• forensis
• forica

• “forum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “forum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• forum 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)
• forum 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) credit has disappeared: fides (de foro) sublata est (Leg. Agr. 2. 3. 8)
    
  • (ambiguous) to shun publicity: publico carere, forum ac lucem fugere
    
• “forum”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[2]
• “forum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “forum”, in William 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)

1. a forum (place for discussion, either on the Internet or in real life)

forum n (definite singular forumet, indefinite plural forum, definite plural foruma)

1. a forum (as above)

From Latin forum. Doublet of dwór (“court, courtyard”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ.rum/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔrum
• Syllabification: fo‧rum

forum n

1. forum (all senses)

• forum in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• forum in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Latin forum.

forum n (plural forumuri)

1. forum

From Latin forum.

• IPA^(key): /fǒːrum/
• Hyphenation: fo‧rum

fórum m (Cyrillic spelling фо́рум)

1. forum

• fórumskī

forum n

1. a forum (place, gathering, or group)
2. (Internet) a forum
3. (historical) a forum

• forum in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• forum in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• forum in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

From Latin forum.

• IPA^(key): /foˈɾum/
• Rhymes: -rum

forum (definite accusative forumu, plural forumlar)

1. forum
2. Internet forum

Inflection
Nominative	forum
Definite accusative	forumu
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	forum	forumlar
Definite accusative	forumu	forumları
Dative	foruma	forumlara
Locative	forumda	forumlarda
Ablative	forumdan	forumlardan
Genitive	forumun	forumların
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular forumum forumlarım 2nd singular forumun forumların 3rd singular forumu forumları 1st plural forumumuz forumlarımız 2nd plural forumunuz forumlarınız 3rd plural forumları forumları Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular forumumu forumlarımı 2nd singular forumunu forumlarını 3rd singular forumunu forumlarını 1st plural forumumuzu forumlarımızı 2nd plural forumunuzu forumlarınızı 3rd plural forumlarını forumlarını Dative Singular Plural 1st singular forumuma forumlarıma 2nd singular forumuna forumlarına 3rd singular forumuna forumlarına 1st plural forumumuza forumlarımıza 2nd plural forumunuza forumlarınıza 3rd plural forumlarına forumlarına Locative Singular Plural 1st singular forumumda forumlarımda 2nd singular forumunda forumlarında 3rd singular forumunda forumlarında 1st plural forumumuzda forumlarımızda 2nd plural forumunuzda forumlarınızda 3rd plural forumlarında forumlarında Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular forumumdan forumlarımdan 2nd singular forumundan forumlarından 3rd singular forumundan forumlarından 1st plural forumumuzdan forumlarımızdan 2nd plural forumunuzdan forumlarınızdan 3rd plural forumlarından forumlarından Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular forumumun forumlarımın 2nd singular forumunun forumlarının 3rd singular forumunun forumlarının 1st plural forumumuzun forumlarımızın 2nd plural forumunuzun forumlarınızın 3rd plural forumlarının forumlarının