foris

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰwṓr, from *dʰwer- (“door, gate”). Cognate with forum, forās, forīs, Sanskrit द्वार् (dvā́r), Ancient Greek θύρα (thúra) and Old English duru and dor (English door).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.ris/, [ˈfɔ.rɪs]

foris f (genitive foris); third declension

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

Third declension i-stem.

• (gate): porta
• (door): iānua

• Forculus
• foricula

Old ablative case of some obsolete noun from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer- (“door, gate”), whence also forās.

Forīs is mostly of location, forās of direction.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.riːs/, [ˈfɔ.riːs]

forīs (not comparable)

1. outside, outdoors (location)

   Foris cenare.

   To dine outside.

See the etymology of the main entry.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.riːs/, [ˈfɔ.riːs]

forīs

1. dative plural of forum
2. 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, 1883–1887)
• foris in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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