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English

Alternative forms

• foreste (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English forest, from Old French forest, from Medieval Latin forestis (“open wood”), first used in the Capitularies of Charlemagne in reference to the royal forest (as opposed to the inner woods, or parcus), of uncertain origin. Compare Old Saxon forest, forst (“forest”), Old High German forst (“forest”), Modern German Forst (“forest”).

Medieval Latin foresta probably represents the fusion of two earlier words: one taken as an adaptation of the Late Latin phrase forestis silva (“the outside woods”), mistaking forestem for woods (—a development not found in Romance languages; compare Old French selve (“forest”)); the other is the continuance of an existing word since Merovingian times from Frankish *forhist (“forest, wooded country, game preserve”) as the general word for "forest, forested land". The Medieval Latin term may have originated as a sound-alike, or been adapted as a play on the Frankish word. In the latter case, this would make forest a doublet of frith.

Displaced native Middle English weald, wald (“forest, weald”), from Old English weald, Middle English scogh, scough (“forest, shaw”), from Old Norse skógr, and Middle English frith, firth (“forest, game preserve”), from Old English fyrhþ.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: f?r??st, IPA^(key): /?f???st/
• (US) enPR: fôr??st, f?r??st, fôr??st, f?r??st, fôrst, IPA^(key): /?f???st/, /?f???st/, /f??st/
  • California, US: IPA^(key): [?f????st?]
• Homophone: forced (some American accents)

Noun

forest (plural forests)

1. A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods.
2. Any dense collection or amount.

   a forest of criticism

   • 1998, Katharine Payne, Silent Thunder: In the Presence of Elephants (page 59)

     Squealing and still propelled by the kick, the calf scrabbled through the forest of legs and into the open.

3. (historical) A defined area of land set aside in England as royal hunting ground or for other privileged use; all such areas.
   • 2013, Alexander Tulloch, The Little Book of Lancashire, The History Press ?ISBN

     [...] in places such as the Forest of Bowland there is hardly a tree in sight and much of the area is a vast tract of almost barren gritstone hills and peat moorland.

4. (graph theory) A graph with no cycles; i.e., a graph made up of trees.
   • 2000, Victor N. Kasyanov, Vladimir A. Evstigneev, Graph Theory for Programmers: Algorithms for Processing Trees, Springer Science & Business Media (?ISBN), page 16:

     Let H be a traversal of an undirected graph G = (X, U). For given H, the set U can be split into set of tree edges from the forest G_H and the set of inverse edges that do not belong to this forest.

5. (computing, Microsoft Windows) A group of domains that are managed as a unit.
   • 2008, Laura E. Hunter, Robbie Allen, Active Directory Cookbook, O'Reilly Media, Inc. (?ISBN), page 17

     Forests are considered the security boundary in Active Directory; by this we mean that if you need to definitively restrict access to a resource within a particular domain so that administrators from other domains do not have any access to it whatsoever, you need to implement a separate forest instead of using an additional domain within the current forest.

6. The colour forest green.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:forest

Meronyms

• tree
• See also Thesaurus:forest

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• forest on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Verb

forest (third-person singular simple present forests, present participle foresting, simple past and past participle forested)

1. (transitive) To cover an area with trees.
   • 1937, Széchenyi Scientific Society, Report on the Work of the Széchenyi Scientific Society: Founded for the Promotion of Research in Natural Sciences in Hungary, Zeéchenyi Scientific Society, page 83:

     From the view-point of national economy professor Fehér communicates to us most interesting facts, which he has established in an important question now of actuality?: in the subject of foresting the Great Hungarian Plains.

Related terms

• afforest

Translations

See also

Anagrams

• Forets, Fortes, Foster, fetors, forset, fortes, fortés, foster, froste, softer

Middle English

Alternative forms

• foreste, fforest

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French forest.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?r?st/

Noun

forest (plural forestes)

1. A forest or wood (uninhabited forested region)
2. A preserve for hunting exclusive to royalty.

Descendants

• English: forest
• Scots: forest
• ? Welsh: fforest

References

• “forest, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-17.

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French forest, from Medieval Latin forestis (“open wood”), first used in the Capitularies of Charlemagne in reference to the royal forest (as opposed to the inner woods, or parcus).

Noun

forest f (plural forests)

1. forest
   • 1544, L’Arcadie-Trad-Massin, Paris:

Further reading

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

Old French

Alternative forms

• foreste

Etymology

From Medieval Latin forestis (“open wood”), first used in the Capitularies of Charlemagne in reference to the royal forest (as opposed to the inner woods, or parcus).

Noun

forest f (oblique plural forez or foretz, nominative singular forest, nominative plural forez or foretz)

1. forest, royal hunting ground

Descendants

• Franc-Comtois: fouré (Poisoux)
• Middle French: forest
  • French: forêt
• Gallo: forée (Nantais), forést
• Lorrain: [Term?] (/for?/) (St-Maurice-sur-Moselle)
• Norman: forêt (Cotentinais, Jersiais), foiret (Brayon), fouorêt (Guernesiais)
• Picard: foreû (Athois)
• Poitevin-Saintongeais: fouras (Châtellerault), fourêt (Saintongeais)
• ? Middle English: forest
  • English: forest
• ? Middle Irish: foraís
  • Irish: foraois

English

Etymology

See vert, verdant.

Noun

verd (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, Britain, law) The privilege of cutting green wood within a forest for fuel.
2. (obsolete, Britain, law) The right of pasturing animals in a forest.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)

3. (obsolete) greenness; freshness

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Nares to this entry?)

Anagrams

• RV'ed, RVed, Revd., derv, rev'd

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan vert and its variants (compare Occitan verd), from Vulgar Latin virdis, virdem (compare French vert, Spanish verde), from Latin viridis, viridem.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?v??t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?b?rt/

Adjective

verd (feminine verda, masculine plural verds, feminine plural verdes)

1. green

Noun

verd m (uncountable)

1. green

Derived terms

• bròquil verd
• Cap Verd
• de més verdes en maduren
• oliva verda
• verdura

Related terms

• enverdir
• verger

See also

Estonian

Noun

verd

1. partitive singular of veri

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

From Latin viridis.

Adjective

verd m (feminine singular verda, masculine plural verds, feminine plural verdes)

1. green

Friulian

Alternative forms

• vert

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin virdis, virdem, from Latin viridis, viridem.

Adjective

verd

1. green

Related terms

• inverdî
• verda?
• verdôr
• verdure
• verge

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• verjed

Etymology

ver +? -d (personal suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?v?rd]
• Hyphenation: verd

Verb

verd

1. second-person singular subjunctive present definite of ver

Lombard

Etymology

Akin to Italian verde, from Latin viridis.

Adjective

verd

1. green

Middle English

Noun

verd

1. Alternative form of vert

Adjective

verd

1. Alternative form of vert

Middle French

Alternative forms

• vert

Etymology

From Old French vert, with the d to reflect its Latin etymology, viridis.

Noun

verd m (uncountable)

1. green

Adjective

verd m (feminine singular verde, masculine plural verds, feminine plural verdes)

1. green

Descendants

• French: vert
  • Haitian Creole: vèt, vè
  • ? Wolof: wert

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse ver?ld, from Proto-Germanic *weraldiz.

Noun

verd f or m (definite singular verda or verden, indefinite plural verder, definite plural verdene)

1. alternative form of verden

Derived terms

• verdslig

Etymology 2

From Old Norse verðr

Adjective

verd (indeclinable)

1. alternative form of verdt

References

• “verd” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse ver?ld, from Proto-Germanic *weraldiz. Akin to English world.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ?r/

Noun

verd f (definite singular verda, indefinite plural verder, definite plural verdene)

1. (definite singular form) world (human collective existence)
2. (definite singular form) the Earth
3. world, planet

Derived terms

• verdshav
• verdsleg
• verdsmeister
• verdsrekord

Etymology 2

From Old Norse verðr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??rd/

Adjective

verd (neuter singular verdt, definite singular and plural verde)

1. worth (equal in value to)

Derived terms

• mindreverd

References

• “verd” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan vert and its variants, from Vulgar Latin virdis, virdem, from Latin viridis, viridem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bert/

Adjective

verd m (feminine singular verda, masculine plural verds, feminine plural verdas)

1. green

Noun

verd m (uncountable)

1. green

Related terms

• verdir
• vergièr

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin virdis, virdem, from Latin viridis, viridem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?rd/

Adjective

verd

1. green

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sutsilvan) veard

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin virdis, virdem, from Latin viridis, viridem.

Adjective

verd m (feminine singular verda, masculine plural verds, feminine plural verdas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) green

Noun

verd m

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) green