forum

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

From Latin forum (“public market place, forum”). Doublet of fuero and door.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔːɹəm/

  Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɹəm/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈfoːɹəm/
• Rhymes: -ɔːɹəm
• Hyphenation: fo‧rum

forum (plural forums or fora)

1. A place for discussion.
2. A gathering for the purpose of discussion; a symposium.
3. A form of discussion involving a panel of presenters and often participation by members of the audience.
5. (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.

7. (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 everyday 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)

Borrowed from Latin forum. The sense “Internet forum” comes from English forum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfoː.rʏm/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: fo‧rum

forum n (plural fora or forums, diminutive forumpje n)

1. forum (ancient Roman marketplace)
2. forum (venue, medium, vehicle; general place of exchange)
3. Internet forum

   Synonym: internetforum

All senses can use the plural fora. The plural forums is predominantly used for the sense “Internet forum”.

• internetforum

• foor

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

• IPA^(key): /fɔ.ʁɔm/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

forum m (plural forums)

1. forum
2. Internet forum

• “forum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• fora (nonstandard)

From Dutch forum, from Latin forum.

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

forum

1. forum (a place for discussion)
2. institution, body

   Synonyms: lembaga, wadah

3. meeting, session, assembly

   Synonym: sidang

• forum on the Indonesian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^id

Unadapted borrowing from English forum, borrowed from Latin forum. Doublet of foro.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ.rum/
• Rhymes: -ɔrum
• Hyphenation: fò‧rum

forum m (invariable)

1. forum (gathering for the purposes of discussion)
2. (by extension, usually capitalized) venue, auditorium, arena
3. (Internet) forum (message board)

• forum in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From Proto-Italic *fworom, from earlier *θworom, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwor-om (“enclosure, courtyard, i.e. something enclosed by the door, or the place outside, i.e. through 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 Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɔ.rũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɔː.rum]

forum n (genitive forī); second declension

1. public place, marketplace, forum

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• 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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “forum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], 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^[2]
• “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. Doublet of dwór (“court, courtyard”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ.rum/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔrum
• Syllabification: fo‧rum

forum n

1. forum (all senses)

• “forum”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “forum”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[4] (in Polish)

Borrowed from Latin forum.

forum n (plural forumuri)

1. forum

From Latin forum.

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

fórum m inan (Cyrillic spelling фо́рум)

1. forum

• fórumskī

Unadapted borrowing from Latin forum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfoɾum/ [ˈfo.ɾũm]
• Rhymes: -oɾum
• Syllabification: fo‧rum

forum m (plural forums)

1. alternative spelling of fórum

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “forum”, in Diccionario del español actual (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA

forum n

1. a forum (place, gathering, or group)
2. (Internet) a forum
3. (historical) a forum

• “forum”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “forum”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “forum”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

From Latin forum.

• IPA^(key): /foˈɾum/

forum (definite accusative forumu, plural forumlar)

1. forum
2. Internet forum