forumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin forum (“public market place, forum”). Doublet of fuero.

発音

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɹəm/
• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔːɹəm/

• 韻: -ɔːɹəm
• (without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ˈfoːɹəm/
• ハイフネーション: fo‧rum

名詞

forum (複数形 forums または fora)

1. A place for discussion.
2. A gathering for the purpose of discussion.
3. A form of discussion involving a panel of presenters and often participation by members of the audience.
4. (Internet) An Internet message board where users can post messages regarding one or more topics of discussion.

   Trish was an admin on three forums, and had no trouble at all when it came to moderating them.

5. (historical) A square or marketplace in a Roman town, used for public business and commerce.

使用する際の注意点

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).
• Also, "The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style," by Bryan A. Garner. Berkley Books, 2000, (p. 156).

派生語

関連する語

• conforaneous (まれに)

派生した語

• → Italian: forum

Latin

語源

From Proto-Italic *fworom, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰworom (“enclosure, courtyard, i.e. something enclosed by the door, または the place outside, i.e. through the door”), from *dʰwer- (“door, gate”).

Cognate with foris, forās, Old Church Slavonic дворъ (dvorŭ, “court, courtyard”), Sanskrit द्वार (dvā́ra, “door, gate, passage”) and Lithuanian dvãras (“estate”).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.rum/, [ˈfɔrʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.rum/, [ˈfɔːrum]

名詞

forum n (genitive forī); second declension

1. public place, marketplace, forum

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

派生語

• forensis
• forica

派生した語

参照

• “forum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “forum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• forum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• forum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) at home; in one's native country: domi (opp. foris)
    
  • (ambiguous) credit has disappeared: fides (de foro) sublata est (Leg. Agr. 2. 3. 8)
    
  • (ambiguous) to shun publicity: publico carere, forum ac lucem fugere
    
• “forum”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[2]
• “forum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “forum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin