foro

• IPA^(key): /ˈforo/

for +‎ -o

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

1. distance, a far place

From Latin forum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ.ro/, [ˈfɔːr̺o]
• 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

Back-formation from forare. Compare Portuguese furo.

foro m (plural fori)

1. hole

   Synonym: buco

2. (anatomy) foramen

   Synonym: forame

See the etymology of the main entry.

foro

1. first-person singular present indicative of forare

See the etymology of the main entry.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfo.ro/, [ˈfoːr̺o]
• Rhymes: -oro
• Hyphenation: fó‧ro

foro

1. Obsolete form of furono, third-person plural past historic indicative of essere

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

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”).

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. I bore
2. I 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

• forāmen
• forātus
• perforō

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

See the etymology of the main entry.

forō

1. dative singular of forum
2. 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, 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 (using Raguileo Alphabet)

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

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

Borrowed from Latin forum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfo.ɾu/

foro m (plural foros)

1. forum

• (forum): fórum

• aforar

From Latin forum. Doublet of fuero.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfoɾo/

foro m (plural foros)

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

• aforar

• “foro” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

foro

1. Obsolete plural form of for, past tense of fara.

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).