foresto

See also: forestò

Esperanto

FWOTD – 21 July 2019

Etymology

From foresti +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [forˈesto]

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• Rhymes: -esto
• Hyphenation: for‧es‧to

Noun

foresto (uncountable, accusative foreston)

1. absence
   • 1902, Lingvo Internacia, page 19:

     Por gardi la familion, dum la foresto de la edzo, estas nur maljuna servistino kaj dudekjara servisto.

     To look after the family during the husband's absence, there are only an old maid and a 20-year-old servant.

   • 1915, L. L. Zamenhof (translator), Malnova Testamento, Jesaja 34:16.

     Eĉ unu el ili ne mankos, unu ne sentos foreston de alia.

     Not even one of them will be missing, one will not feel the absence of another.

Synonyms

• forestado

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin foresta, English forest, French forêt, Italian foresta, Spanish foresta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /foˈres.to/

Noun

foresto (plural foresti)

1. forest
   • Ido – Societo Hispana, "La vundita volfo e la mutono.", rakonteti e fabli: kompilita da la forumani di idoespanyol, volume 1.

     Olim vundita e durstoza volfo jacis sur la sulo tre proxim al laguno di foresto, ma desfortunoze, la vundi impedis al volfo staceskar e proximigar su a la laguno.

     Once upon a time a wounded and thirsty wolf lay on the ground very close to a forest fen (actually "lagoon"), but unfortunately, the wounds hindered the wolf from standing up and approaching the fen.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /foˈrɛ.sto/
• Rhymes: -ɛsto
• Hyphenation: fo‧rè‧sto

Verb

foresto

1. first-person singular present indicative of forestare

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• forestod

Verb

foresto

1. simple past of forestå

Spanish

Verb

foresto

1. first-person singular present indicative of forestar

Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian forestiero

Adjective

foresto (feminine singular foresta, masculine plural foresti, feminine plural foreste)

1. foreign
2. strange
3. external

Noun

foresto m (plural foresti)

1. foreigner
2. stranger