foruliとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

forulī m pl (genitive forulōrum); second declension

1. bookcase or bookshelves

   Synonym: pēgma

   • 121 AD, Suetonius, De Vita Caesarum, volume II.31:

     [...]; condiditque [Sybillinos libros] duobus forulis aureatis sub Palatini Apollinis basi

     [...]; he placed them [the Sybilline books] in two gilded bookcases under the pedestal of Apollo Palatine's statue.

2. lower rows in the Circensian games
   • 8th century, Paulus Diaconus, chapter 84.14, in Epitome Festi De verborum significat (Epitome of Sextus Pompeius Festus's De verborum significatione):

     Fori significant et Circensia spectacula, ex quibus etiam minores forulos dicimus

     Fori means the rows of seats in a theater; from which we say forulī, the lower rows.

語形変化

Second-declension noun, plural only.

Further reading

• “forulī”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “forulī”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• forulī in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.