different between forum vs fora

English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f????m/
• Rhymes: -????m
• Hyphenation: fo?rum

Noun

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.

Usage notes

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).

Related terms

• conforaneous (rare)

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fo?.r?m/
• Hyphenation: fo?rum

Noun

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

Usage notes

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

Derived terms

• internetforum

Related terms

• foor

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?.??m/

Noun

forum m (plural forums)

1. forum
2. forum (for Internet)

Further reading

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

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch forum, from Latin forum, from Proto-Indo-European *d?worom (“enclosure, courtyard, i.e. something enclosed by the door, or the place outside, i.e. through the door”), from *d?wer- (“door, gate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?for?m]
• Hyphenation: fo?rum

Noun

forum (plural forum-forum, first-person possessive forumku, second-person possessive forummu, third-person possessive forumnya)

1. forum: a place for discussion.
2. institution, body

   Synonyms: lembaga, wadah

3. meeting, session, assembly.

   Synonym: sidang

Alternative forms

• fora

Further reading

• “forum” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?.rum/
• Rhymes: -?rum
• Hyphenation: fò?rum

Noun

forum m (invariable)

1. forum (all meanings)

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *d?worom (“enclosure, courtyard, i.e. something enclosed by the door, or the place outside, i.e. through the door”), from *d?wer- (“door, gate”). Cognate with foris, for?s, Old Church Slavonic ????? (dvor?, “court, courtyard”), Sanskrit ????? (dv??ra, “door, gate, passage”) and Lithuanian dvãras (“estate”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fo.rum/, [?f?????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fo.rum/, [?f???um]

Noun

forum n (genitive for?); second declension

1. public place, marketplace, forum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Derived terms

• forensis
• forica

Descendants

References

• 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?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• 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

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

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)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

forum n (definite singular forumet, indefinite plural forum, definite plural foruma)

1. a forum (as above)

Polish

Etymology

From Latin forum, from Proto-Indo-European *d?worom (“enclosure, courtyard”), from *d?wer- (“door, gate”). Doublet of dwór (“court, courtyard”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?.rum/

Noun

forum n

1. forum (all senses)

Declension

Derived terms

• (nouns) forowicz, forumowicz
• (adjectives) forowy, forumowy

Further reading

• forum in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin forum

Noun

forum n (plural forumuri)

1. forum

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin forum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??rum/
• Hyphenation: fo?rum

Noun

fórum m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. forum

Declension

Derived terms

• fórumsk?

English

Noun

fora

1. plural of forum (alternative form of forums).

Usage notes

The English plural forums is preferred to the Latin plural fora in normal English usage.

References

Further reading

• forums, fora at Google Ngram Viewer

Anagrams

• Afro, Afro-, Faro, Fårö, RAFO, afro, faro

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?f?.??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?f?.?a/

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan (compare Occitan fòra), from Latin for?s (“outside”) (compare French hors, Spanish fuera), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *d?wer- (“door; gate”).

Preposition

fora

1. out, outside

Antonyms

• dins, dintre

Derived terms

• afores
• fora de servei

Adverb

fora

1. outside

   Antonyms: dins, dintre

2. away

Derived terms

• fora de sèrie

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

fora

1. (2016 spelling reform) Alternative spelling of fóra

Further reading

• “fora” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “fora” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “fora” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

fora

1. plural of forum

Esperanto

Etymology

for +? -a

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fora/
• Hyphenation: fo?ra
• Rhymes: -ora

Adjective

fora (accusative singular foran, plural foraj, accusative plural forajn)

1. far, distant

Related terms

French

Verb

fora

1. third-person singular past historic of forer

Galician

Etymology 1

Inflected form of ir (“to go”).

Verb

fora

1. first-person singular pluperfect indicative of ir
2. third-person singular pluperfect indicative of ir

Etymology 2

Inflected form of ser (“to be”).

Verb

fora

1. first-person singular pluperfect indicative of ser
2. third-person singular pluperfect indicative of ser

Ido

Adjective

fora

1. distant

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?fora]
• Hyphenation: fo?ra

Noun

fora (first-person possessive foraku, second-person possessive foramu, third-person possessive foranya)

1. (nonstandard) Alternative spelling of forum

Italian

Verb

fora

1. third-person singular present indicative of forare
2. second-person singular imperative of forare

Anagrams

• afro, faro, farò

Latin

Noun

fora

1. nominative plural of forum
2. accusative plural of forum
3. vocative plural of forum

References

• fora in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• (of forum) forumer
• (of for) forene

Noun

fora n

1. indefinite plural of forum
2. definite plural of for

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From for, fòr (“furrow”).

Alternative forms

• fore, fòra, fòre

Verb

fora (present tense forar, past tense fora, past participle fora, passive infinitive forast, present participle forande, imperative for)

1. to furrow

Etymology 2

From Old Norse fóðra.

Verb

fora (present tense forar, past tense fora, past participle fora, passive infinitive forast, present participle forande, imperative for)

1. Alternative form of fôre

Etymology 3

From for, fôr (“lining of clothes”).

Verb

fora (present tense forar, past tense fora, past participle fora, passive infinitive forast, present participle forande, imperative for)

1. Alternative form of fôre

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

fora f

1. singular definite of for
2. singular definite of for
3. singular definite of fore
4. singular definite of fore

fora n

1. plural definite of for
2. plural definite of for

fora n pl (non-standard since 2012)

1. inflection of forum:
   1. plural indefinite
   2. plural definite

References

• fora in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old High German

Alternative forms

• for, fore

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *for?, whence also Old English fore.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fo.ra/

Preposition

fora (+ dative)

1. before, against, in the presence of

Descendants

• Middle Low German: vor, vore
  • Bavarian:

    Cimbrian: bóar

    Mòcheno: vour

  • Central Franconian: vür
  • German: vor

References

• Henry Frowde, An Old High German Primer

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fora/

Etymology 1

Univerbation of for (“on”) +? a (“his/her/its/their”)

Determiner

fora (‘his’ and ‘its’ trigger lenition, ‘her’ triggers /h/-prothesis, ‘their’ triggers eclipsis)

1. on his/her/its/their

Etymology 2

for (“on”) +? -a (relative pronoun)

Pronoun

fora·

1. on whom/which
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 4^d15

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• for, fore, fur, far

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *for?, whence also Old English fore; from Proto-Germanic *furai.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?.r?/

Preposition

fora (+ dative)

1. before, against

Descendants

• Low German: vör

Synonyms

• biforan
• withar
• with

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin for?s (“outside”).

Adverb

fora

1. outside

Polish

Noun

fora

1. nominative plural of forum
2. accusative plural of forum
3. vocative plural of forum

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese fora, from Latin for?s (“outside”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?wer- (“door; gate”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: fo?ra
• IPA^(key): /?f?.??/

Adverb

fora (not comparable)

1. outside (on the outside of a building or location)

2. abroad; overseas (in another country)

3. out (away from home or one’s usual place)

4. away (to be discarded)

Derived terms

Preposition

fora

1. except (with the exception of)

   Synonym: exceto

Noun

fora m (plural foras)

1. (Brazil, slang) rejection of a romantic proposal

Interjection

fora!

1. out! (demanding that someone leave)

Etymology 2

From Old Portuguese fora, from Latin fueram (1st person) and fuerat (3rd person), inflected forms of sum (“I am”).

Alternative forms

• fôra (superseded)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fo.??/

Verb

fora

1. First-person singular (eu) pluperfect indicative of ser
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) pluperfect indicative of ser
3. First-person singular (eu) pluperfect indicative of ir
4. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) pluperfect indicative of ir

Romanian

Etymology

From French forer, from Latin forare.

Verb

a fora (third-person singular present foreaz?, past participle forat) 1st conj.

1. to drill

Conjugation

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• fori

Etymology

From Latin foras.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?ra/
• Hyphenation: fò?ra

Adverb

fora

1. outside
2. outdoors

Antonyms

• dintra

Swahili

Etymology

From Arabic ???????? (fawra, “outburst; excitement”).

Pronunciation

Noun

fora (n class, plural fora)

1. a win, success

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish fora (“journey”); see föra (“to transport, move objects”). Also related to fara (“to go, travel”).

Noun

fora c

1. transported cargo; possibly including the vehicle or carriage on which the cargo is loaded

Declension

Derived terms

• timmerfora

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin for?s (“outside”).

Adverb

fora

1. outside

Preposition

fora

1. outside, outwith