forum

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔːɹəm/
• Rhymes: -ɔːɹəm
• Hyphenation: fo‧rum

forum (plural forums or fora)

1. A place for discussion.
2. A gathering for the purpose of discussion.
3. A form of discussion involving a panel of presenters and often participation by members of the audience.
4. (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.

5. (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 normal 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)

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

• IPA^(key): /fɔ.ʁɔm/

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forum m (plural forums)

1. forum
2. forum (for Internet)

• “forum” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Latin forum, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰworom (“enclosure”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ.rum/, [ˈfɔːr̺um]
• Rhymes: -ɔrum
• Stress: fòrum
• Hyphenation: fo‧rum

forum m (invariable)

1. forum (all meanings)

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰworom (“enclosure, courtyard, i.e. something enclosed by 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) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.rum/, [ˈfɔ.rũ]

forum n (genitive forī); second declension

1. public place, marketplace, forum

Second declension.

• 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, 1883–1887)
• forum 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) 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
• 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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ.rum/

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forum n

1. forum (all senses)

• forum in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Latin forum.

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

fórum m (Cyrillic spelling фо́рум)

1. forum

• fórumskī