forane
English
editEtymology 1
editSee foreign.
Adjective
editforane (comparative more forane, superlative most forane)
- Obsolete form of foreign.
- 1745, Guy Miege, The Present State of Great Britain, and Ireland, page 443:
- [T]he Bay of Galway [is] so well seated for Merchandize, that it has been lookd on as the greatest Place of Trade in all Ireland; insomuch that a forane Merchant meeting an Irishman, asked him in what Part of Galway Ireland stood?
Etymology 2
editBorrowed from Medieval Latin forāneus (“from elsewhere, foreign, non-resident”), from forās (“outdoors”) + -āneus, likely formed by analogy with extrāneus.
Adjective
editforane (not comparable) (postpositive)
- Only used in vicar forane and vicariate forane