forestis
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Esperanto[edit]
Verb[edit]
forestis
- past of foresti
Latin[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Uncertain. Securely attested from AD 648.[1]
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Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
forestis f (genitive forestis); third declension (Early Medieval Latin)
- a large area reserved for the use of the King or nobility, often a forest and often for hunting or fishing
- (by extension) a forest in general
Declension[edit]
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | forestis | forestēs |
Genitive | forestis | forestium |
Dative | forestī | forestibus |
Accusative | forestem | forestēs forestīs |
Ablative | foreste | forestibus |
Vocative | forestis | forestēs |
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Old Catalan: forest
- Franco-Provençal: forêt
- Old French: forest (see there for further descendants)
- Occitan: forèst
Reflexes of the variant foresta: (possibly all via Old French)
- Old French: foreste
- Italian: foresta
- → Maltese: foresta
- Old Occitan: foresta
- Piedmontese: foresta
- Portuguese: floresta
- Sicilian: furesta
- Spanish: floresta
References[edit]
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “forestis”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 443
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “forestis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 3: D–F, page 709
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “forestis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 3: D–F, page 709
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “floresta”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 919
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
forestīs
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- Esperanto verb forms
- Latin terms with unknown etymologies
- Latin terms derived from Frankish
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
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- Latin feminine nouns in the third declension
- Latin feminine nouns
- Medieval Latin
- Early Medieval Latin
- Latin non-lemma forms
- Latin noun forms