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From Proto-Italic *foris, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwṓr, from *dʰwer- (“door, gate”).

Cognate with forās, forīs, forum, Sanskrit द्वार् (dvā́r), Ancient Greek θύρα (thúra), Old Church Slavonic двьрь (dvĭrĭ), Old English duru and dor (English door).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɔ.rɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɔː.ris]
• Hyphenation: fo‧ris

foris f (genitive foris); third declension

1. door
2. gate
3. opening
4. entrance

   Synonyms: ingressus, iānua, initium, līmen, porta, ingressiō, vestibulum

   Antonym: abitus

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• biforis
• Forculus
• foricula

Old ablative case of Etymology 1 (*θworeis). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer- (“door, gate”), whence also forās.

• ā forīs (Late Latin)
• dē forīs (Late Latin, proscribed)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɔ.riːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɔː.ris]
• Hyphenation: fo‧rīs

forīs (not comparable)

1. outside, outdoors (location)

   Synonyms: foras, extrinsecus

   Antonyms: intro, intrā, penitus

   forīs cēnāre ― to dine outside

Forīs is mostly of location, forās of direction.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɔ.riːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɔː.ris]
• Hyphenation: fo‧rīs

forīs

1. dative/ablative plural of forum

• “foris”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• foris in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “foris”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• “foris”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Harm Pinkster, editor (2018), “foris”, in Woordenboek Latijn/Nederlands‎^[2], 7th revised edition, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC
• Latino-Sinicum, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• "foris", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “foris”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) at home; in one's native country: domi (opp. foris)
    
  • (ambiguous) to knock at the door: ostium, fores pulsare
    
  • (ambiguous) to open, shut the door: ostium, fores aperire, claudere
    
  • (ambiguous) to bolt the door: fores obserare