Latin edit

Etymology edit

For forica taberna "a shed outside", containing unattested *foricus "being outside, public", from forīs (outside) +‎ -icus.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

forica f (genitive foricae); first declension

  1. public latrine, restroom

Declension edit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative forica foricae
Genitive foricae foricārum
Dative foricae foricīs
Accusative foricam foricās
Ablative foricā foricīs
Vocative forica foricae

References edit

  • forica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • forica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • forica 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)
  • forica”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “forica”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 527