forensis

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer-der.

Proto-Italic *fworom

Latin forum

Latin -ēnsis

Latin forēnsis

From forum + -ēnsis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fɔˈrẽː.sɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [foˈrɛn.sis]

Adjective

forēnsis (neuter forēnse); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. of or pertaining to the market or forum
2. public
3. (Late Latin, Christianity) lay (non-clerical)

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	forēnsis	forēnse		forēnsēs	forēnsia
genitive	forēnsis			forēnsium
dative	forēnsī			forēnsibus
accusative	forēnsem	forēnse		forēnsīs forēnsēs	forēnsia
ablative	forēnsī			forēnsibus
vocative	forēnsis	forēnse		forēnsēs	forēnsia

Synonyms

• (public): pūblicus

Related terms

• forum

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: foresi, furesi, fresi
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: forese
  • Neapolitan: forese (Matera)
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Lombard: forèss (Como)
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old Occitan: fores, foreis, foures

Borrowings:

• → Catalan: forense
• → Italian: forense
• → Portuguese: forense
• → Sicilian: furinzi
• → Spanish: forense
• ⇒ English: forensic

References

• “forensis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “forensis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "forensis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to shun publicity: forensi luce carere
    
• “forensis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “forensis”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 442
• forensis in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016