forum

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

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

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɹəm/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔːɹəm/

  Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔːɹəm
• (without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ˈfoːɹəm/
• 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.
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.

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).

• conforaneous (rare)

• → Italian: forum

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)

forum m (plural forums)

1. forum
2. Internet forum

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

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈforʊm]
• Hyphenation: fo‧rum

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

• fora

• “forum” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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 *forom, 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) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.rum/, [ˈfɔrʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.rum/, [ˈfɔːrum]

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’s 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, 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
• “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, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• forum in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Latin forum.

forum n (plural forumuri)

1. forum

From Latin forum.

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

fórum m (Cyrillic spelling фо́рум)

1. forum

• fórumskī

forum n

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

• forum in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• forum in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• forum in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

From Latin forum.

• IPA^(key): /foˈɾum/
• Rhymes: -rum

forum (definite accusative forumu, plural forumlar)

1. forum
2. Internet forum