foro

foro

1. field

fòrò

1. penis

• Richard Nci Diarra, Lexique bambara-français-anglais, December 13, 2010

for +‎ -o

• IPA^(key): /ˈforo/

foro (accusative singular foron, plural foroj, accusative plural forojn)

1. distance, a far place

 

From Old Galician-Portuguese foro, from Latin forum. Cognate with Spanish fuero.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɔ.ɾʊ]

foro m (plural foros)

1. (historical) a multi-generational rental contract or lease of farmland
   • 1407, J. L. Novo Cazón, editor, El priorato santiaguista de Vilar de Donas en la Edad Media (1194-1500), A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 502:

     Iten, foro que ten Joan, de Cunbraaos, de herdades que teuo seu padre aforadas enno dicto lugar de Cunbraaos

     Item, lease that has Xoán, of Cumbraos, of properties that his father rented in said village of Cumbraos

2. (historical) constitution, statute or bill of rights issued by a lord, bishop or king to a town or city
   • 1244, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 13:

     Ista é carta de foro que faz dona Toda a estos homees que poblan esta pobla de Uila bona

     This is the charter of constitution [bill of rights] that makes Lady Toda to the men [humans] that peoples this town of Vilaboa [Goodville]

   • 1318, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 147:

     Et o foro de Padrom atal he, que pertigueyro, nen justiça, nen outro ome nihuun non deue prender ena villa de padrom ome nihuun por deueda nen por outra cousa nihua

     And the constitution of Padron is such that neither verger, nor justice, nor any other man, could capture a man in the town of Padrón because of a debt or because of any other motive

3. (historical) law private to a territory or collective; jurisdiction

• aforar
• foreiro

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “foro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “foro”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “foro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “foro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “foro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Latin forum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ.ro/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔro
• Hyphenation: fò‧ro

foro m (plural fori)

1. (historical, Ancient Rome) forum (square or marketplace used for public business and commerce)
2. (law) court

Deverbal from forare (“to pierce, make a hole”) +‎ -o. Compare Portuguese furo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ.ro/, (traditional) /ˈfo.ro/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔro, (traditional) -oro
• Hyphenation: fò‧ro, (traditional) fó‧ro

foro m (plural fori)

1. hole

   Synonym: buco

2. (anatomy) foramen

   Synonym: forame

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ.ro/, (traditional) /ˈfo.ro/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔro, (traditional) -oro
• Hyphenation: fò‧ro, (traditional) fó‧ro

foro

1. first-person singular present indicative of forare

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ.ro/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔro
• Hyphenation: fò‧ro

foro

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of furono, third-person plural past historic of essere

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.roː/, [ˈfɔroː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.ro/, [ˈfɔːro]

From Proto-Italic *forāō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰorH-eh₂yé-ti, 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”).

Compare, also from Proto-Indo-European: Lithuanian bárti (“to accuse, scold”), Old Church Slavonic брати (brati, “to fight”), Icelandic berja (“to beat”), English bore.

forō (present infinitive forāre, perfect active forāvī, supine forātum); first conjugation

1. to bore
2. to pierce
   • T. Maccius Plautus, Mostellaria 1.1:

     O carnuficium cribrum, quod credo fore,
     ita te forabunt patibulatum per vias
     stimulis carnufices, si huc reveniat senex.

     O I guess you will be the executioner's sieve,
     for with pricks he will pierce you
     gibbeted, as soon as the old man back comes

• forābilis
• forāmen
• forātus
• perforō

• Asturian: furar
• French: forer
  • → Romanian: fora
• Galician: furar
• Italian: forare
• Portuguese: furar
• Spanish: horadar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

forō

1. dative/ablative singular of forum

• “foro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (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
    
  • (ambiguous) credit has disappeared: fides (de foro) sublata est (Leg. Agr. 2. 3. 8)
    

foro (Raguileo spelling)

1. (anatomy) bone
2. (anatomy) tooth

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

foro

1. (obsolete) plural past tense of fara
   • 1647, “LAnte oster Kraakelund”, in Den fyrste morgonblånen, Oslo: Novus, published 1990, page 43:

     Foro dei inckie vel i danna Fær

     Didn't they go on that way[?]

From Old Galician-Portuguese foro, from Latin forum. Doublet of fórum and cognate with Galician foro and Spanish fuero.

• Hyphenation: fo‧ro

foro m (plural foros, metaphonic)

1. (law) court
2. (law) jurisdiction (of a court)
3. (law) customary privilege or immunity
4. (law, historical) emphyteusis
5. (law, historical) foral (royal document establishing a town's council)
6. usual or customary fee
7. type, class

   doenças do foro cardíaco ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

• aforar

Learned borrowing from Latin forum. Doublet of fórum.

• Hyphenation: fo‧ro

foro m (plural foros)

1. (historical, Ancient Rome) forum

   Synonym: fórum

Borrowed from Latin forum. Doublet of fuero.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfoɾo/ [ˈfo.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -oɾo
• Syllabification: fo‧ro

foro m (plural foros)

1. forum (a place for discussion)
2. forum (an Internet message board)
3. (theater) forum

• “foro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

foro

1. (pre-1940) plural past indicative of fara

• IPA^(key): [ˈfo.ɾo]

foro

1. (intransitive, of birds, etc.) to brood

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

foro

1. pig

   Kuke foro sigi.

   The dog bit the pig.

• Bray Boreret and Bradley Aira and Jason Carwile. Tentative Grammar Description for the Ubir [ubi] Language spoken in Oro Province. Ms. 48pp. (2015).

• IPA^(key): /fɔɾɔ/

foro

1. rabbit

• Beria-English English-Beria Dictionary [provisional] ADESK, Iriba, Kobe Department, Chad