foresta

Derived from Early Medieval Latin foresta. Documented since the thirteenth century.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /foˈrɛs.ta/

• Audio (la foresta):

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• Rhymes: -ɛsta
• Hyphenation: fo‧rè‧sta

foresta f (plural foreste)

1. forest

   Synonyms: bosco, selva

• → Maltese: foresta

• giungla

• foresta in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• foresta in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• foresta in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• foresta in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• forèsta in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• forèsta in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• foraste, fresato, sfaterò, sforate

foresta f (genitive forestae); first declension (Early Medieval Latin)

1. alternative form of forestis (documented from AD 778)^[1]

   Homines qui manent extra forestam non veniant decetero coram justiciariis nostris

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First-declension noun.

• see: forestis

• "foresta", 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)

Borrowed from Italian foresta.

• IPA^(key): /fɔˈrɛːs.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɛːsta

foresta f (plural foresti)

1. forest

   F’din il-foresta hemm ħafna siġar twal. ― In this forest there are a lot of tall trees.

Derived from Early Medieval Latin foresta.

• IPA^(key): /fuˈresta/

foresta f (plural foreste)

1. forest

• IPA^(key): /foˈɾesta/ [foˈɾes.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -esta
• Syllabification: fo‧res‧ta

Ultimately from Early Medieval Latin foresta.

foresta f (plural forestas)

1. (literary) forest

   Synonyms: bosque, selva, jungla, floresta

foresta

1. inflection of forestar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “foresta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

foresta

1. feminine singular of foresto