foresta

See also: forestå and förestå

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin foresta.

Pronunciation
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Noun

foresta f (plural foreste)

  1. forest

Derived terms

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Anagrams

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Substantivisation of Late Latin (before 1294) forestis/foresta (silva); original sense of an open plot of land over which hunting rights are reserved is first found in Carolingian texts. Possibly derived from forīs (“outside, outdoors”) or based on forensis.[1] Sometimes regarded as a borrowing from Frankish *forhist, from Proto-Germanic *furhiþą.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

foresta f (genitive forestae); first declension[3]

  1. (Medieval Latin) wood, forest
    Homines qui manent extra forestam non veniant decetero coram justiciariis nostris

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative foresta forestae
Genitive forestae forestārum
Dative forestae forestīs
Accusative forestam forestās
Ablative forestā forestīs
Vocative foresta forestae

Derived terms

Descendants

forestis:

  • Franco-Provençal:
    • Old Dauphinois: fourest
      • Middle Dauphinois: [Term?] (/furɛː/)
        • Dauphinois: [Term?] (/forɛ/)
    • Neuchâtelois: forêt
    • Savoyard: jhör, [Term?] (/forɛ/)
  • Old French: forest
    • Franc-Comtois: fouré (Poisoux)
    • Middle French: forest
    • Gallo: forée (Nantais), forést
    • Lorrain: [Term?] (/forɛ/) (St-Maurice-sur-Moselle)
    • Norman: forêt (Cotentinais, Jersiais), foiret (Brayon), fouorêt (Guernesiais)
    • Picard: foreû (Athois)
    • Poitevin-Saintongeais: fouras (Châtellerault), fourêt (Saintongeais)
    • → Middle English: forest
    • → Middle Irish: foraís
  • Old Occitan: forest
    • Catalan: forest
    • Occitan:
      • Auvergnat: [Term?] (/fure/) (Puy de Dôme), foureî (Velay)
      • Gascon: [Term?] (/hawrest/) (Bagnères), [Term?] (/ahurɛs/) (Bagnères-de-Bigorre), hourèst (Béarnais), ahourech (Gers), [script needed] (ahurɛs) (Gironde, Lot-et-Garonne), fourès (Vallée d’Aspe)
      • Languedocien: fourèst (Toulousain), [script needed] (furɛst) (Ariègeois, Aveyron, Tarnais), forèst, [Term?] (/furɛs/)
      • Limousin: [Term?] (/fure/) (Périgourdin)
      • Provençal: foures (Aix), [Term?] (/furɛs/)
      • Vivaro-Alpin: forest

foresta:

References
  1. 1882 (Brachet, Auguste) An Etymological Dictionary of the French Language: Crowned by the French Academy (in French), Clarendon Press, page 169
  2. “forêt” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
  3. foresta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sicilian foresta.

Noun

foresta f (plural foresti)

  1. forest
    Madwar nofs l-ispeċijiet dinjija tal-pjanti u l-amminali jinsabu fil-foresti tropikali.
    Around half of all species of the world's fauna and flora live in tropical forests.

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin foresta.

Noun

foresta f (plural forestas)

  1. forest (dense collection of trees)

Synonyms

See also

Venetian

Adjective

foresta

  1. feminine singular of foresto
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