forum.
market; forum (in Rome); court of justice;
Meaning & usage
public place, marketplace, forum
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *dʰwór-o- Proto-Italic *θworom Proto-Italic *fworom Proto-Italic *forom Latin forum From Proto-Italic *forom, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwor-om (“enclosure, courtyard, i.e. something enclosed by the door, or the place outside, i.e. through the door”), from *dʰwer- (“door, gate”). According to Schrijver, the term must have lost the *-w- prior to the sound change *wo- > *wa- in an open syllable. Cognate with foris, forās, Old Church Slavonic дворъ (dvorŭ, “court, courtyard”), Sanskrit द्वार (dvā́ra, “door, gate, passage”) and Lithuanian dvãras (“estate”).
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