forensis
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /foˈren.sis/, [fɔˈrẽːs̠ɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /foˈren.sis/, [foˈrɛnsis]
Adjective edit
forēnsis (neuter forēnse); third-declension two-termination adjective
- of or pertaining to the market or forum
- public
- (Late Latin, Christianity) lay (non-clerical)
Declension edit
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | forēnsis | forēnse | forēnsēs | forēnsia | |
| Genitive | forēnsis | forēnsium | |||
| Dative | forēnsī | forēnsibus | |||
| Accusative | forēnsem | forēnse | forēnsēs forēnsīs |
forēnsia | |
| Ablative | forēnsī | forēnsibus | |||
| Vocative | forēnsis | forēnse | forēnsēs | forēnsia | |
Synonyms edit
- (public): pūblicus
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Italian: forese, → forense (learned)
- Portuguese: forense
- Sicilian: furinzi
- Spanish: forense
- ⇒ English: forensic
References edit
- “forensis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “forensis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- forensis 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)
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to shun publicity: forensi luce carere
- to shun publicity: forensi luce carere
- forensis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “forensis”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 442
- forensis in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016