Forum
English
Noun
Forum (plural Forums or fora)- A place for discussion.
- A gathering for the purpose of discussion.
- A form of discussion involving a panel of presenters and often participation by members of the audience.
- An Internet message board where users can post messages regarding one or more topics of discussion.
- Trish was an admin member on three forums, and had no trouble at all when it came to moderating them.
Notes
The English plural forums is preferred to the Latin plural fora in normal English usage.
- Ref: Modern English Usage, 2nd Edition, ed. Sir Ernest Gowers, Oxford 1968 (article '-um', p.658).
Related terms
- conforaneous (rare)
Thesaurus
Areopagus, agora, airing, amphitheater, analysis, arena, assemblee, assembly, assignation, at home, athletic field, auditorium, background, ball, bear garden, board, bowl, boxing ring, brawl, bull ring, buzz session, campo, campus, canvas, canvassing, caucus, circus, cockpit, coliseum, colloquium, colosseum, commission, committee, conclave, concourse, conference, congregation, congress, consideration, conventicle, convention, convocation, council, course, curia, dance, date, debate, debating, deliberation, dialectic, dialogue, diet, discussion, discussion group, eisteddfod, examination, exchange of views, festivity, fete, field, floor, forgathering, gathering, get-together, ground, gym, gymnasium, hall, hippodrome, housewarming, inquisition, investigation, joint discussion, judicatory, judicature, judiciary, levee, lists, locale, logical analysis, logical discussion, market, market cross, marketplace, mart, mat, meet, meeting, milieu, open discussion, open forum, palaestra, panel, panel discussion, parade ground, party, piazza, pit, place, platform, plaza, plenum, precinct, prize ring, prom, public square, purlieu, quorum, rally, range, rap, rap session, reception, rendezvous, review, rialto, ring, round table, scene, scene of action, scenery, seance, seminar, session, setting, shindig, sit-in, site, sitting, soiree, sphere, square, squared circle, stadium, stage, stage set, stage setting, study, symposium, synod, terrain, the Inquisition, theater, tilting ground, tiltyard, town meeting, treatment, tribunal, turnout, ventilation, walk, wrestling ring
Alternative forms
- 4rum (Internet leet)
Etymology
From Latin forum (“public market place”, “forum”).
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈfɔːɹəm/
Translations
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
Forum m. (plural Forums)
- forum
- forum (for Internet)
Italian
Noun
Forum m. inv.
- forum (all meanings)
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *dʰworom (“enclosure, courtyard, i.e. something enclosed by the door”). Cognate with Old Church Slavonic дворъ (dvorŭ, “court, courtyard”), Sanskrit द्वार (dvā́ra, “door, gate, passage”) and Lithuanian dvãras (“estate”). This Proto-Indo-European neuter is a derivation of the basic root noun *dʰwer- (“door, gate”) that also gave Latin foris (“door; gate”) and forās (“outdoors”).
Noun
forum (genitive forī); n, second declension
Inflection
| Number | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | forum | fora |
| genitive | forī | forōrum |
| dative | forō | forīs |
| accusative | forum | fora |
| ablative | forō | forīs |
| vocative | forum | fora |
Descendants
Norwegian
Noun
Forum (plural: fora or forum)
- A place for discussion, either on the Internet or in real life.
Polish
Etymology
From Latin forum.
Noun
Forum n.
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Latin forum.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /fǒːrum/
- Hyphenation: fo‧rum
Noun
fórum m. (Cyrillic spelling фо́рум)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | forum | forumi |
| genitive | foruma | foruma |
| dative | forumu | forumima |
| accusative | forum | forume |
| vocative | forume | forumi |
| locative | forumu | forumima |
| instrumental | forumom | forumima |
Derived terms
- English nouns
- English terms derived from Latin
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- Websites
- French terms derived from Latin
- En:Internet
- French terms derived from English
- Pages with broken file links
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French countable nouns
- Italian nouns
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin nouns
- Norwegian nouns
- Polish terms derived from Latin
- Polish nouns
- Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Latin
- Serbo-Croatian nouns
