foresta

See also: Foresta, forestå, and förestå

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin foresta.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /foˈrɛ.sta/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛsta
  • Hyphenation: fo‧rè‧sta

Noun

foresta f (plural foreste)

  1. forest

Derived terms

See also

Anagrams

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Substantivisation of Medieval Latin (before 1294) forestis/foresta (silva); original sense of an open plot of land over which hunting rights are reserved is first found in Carolingian texts. The further etymology is unknown. Possibly derived from forīs (“outside, outdoors”) or based on forensis.[1] Sometimes regarded as a borrowing from Frankish *furhiþi.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

foresta f (genitive forestae); first declension[3]

  1. (Medieval Latin) wood, forest
    Homines qui manent extra forestam non veniant decetero coram justiciariis nostris

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative foresta forestae
Genitive forestae forestārum
Dative forestae forestīs
Accusative forestam forestās
Ablative forestā forestīs
Vocative foresta forestae

Derived terms

Descendants

forestis:

  • Franco-Provençal:
    • Old Dauphinois: fourest
      • Middle Dauphinois: [Term?] (/furɛː/)
        • Dauphinois: [Term?] (/forɛ/)
    • Neuchâtelois: forêt
    • Savoyard: jhör, [Term?] (/forɛ/)
  • Old French: forest
    • Franc-Comtois: fouré (Poisoux)
    • Middle French: forest
    • Gallo: forée (Nantais), forést
    • Lorrain: [Term?] (/forɛ/) (St-Maurice-sur-Moselle)
    • Norman: forêt (Cotentinais, Jersiais), foiret (Brayon), fouorêt (Guernesiais)
    • Picard: foreû (Athois)
    • Poitevin-Saintongeais: fouras (Châtellerault), fourêt (Saintongeais)
    • → Middle English: forest
    • → Middle Irish: foraís
  • Old Occitan: forest
    • Catalan: forest
    • Occitan:
      • Auvergnat: [Term?] (/fure/) (Puy de Dôme), foureî (Velay)
      • Gascon: [Term?] (/hawrest/) (Bagnères), [Term?] (/ahurɛs/) (Bagnères-de-Bigorre), hourèst (Béarnais), ahourech (Gers), [script needed] (ahurɛs) (Gironde, Lot-et-Garonne), fourès (Vallée d’Aspe)
      • Languedocien: fourèst (Toulousain), [script needed] (furɛst) (Ariègeois, Aveyron, Tarnais), forèst, [Term?] (/furɛs/)
      • Limousin: [Term?] (/fure/) (Périgourdin)
      • Provençal: foures (Aix), [Term?] (/furɛs/)
      • Vivaro-Alpin: forest

foresta:

References
  1. 1882 (Brachet, Auguste), G. W. Kitchin, transl., An Etymological Dictionary of the French Language [Crowned by the French Academy] (in English), 3rd edition, Clarendon Press, page 169 [1st ed. 1873, 2nd ed. 1878]
  2. “forêt”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
  3. foresta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian foresta.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /fɔˈrɛsta/

Noun

foresta f (plural foresti)

  1. forest
    F'din il-foresta hemm ħafna siġar twal.
    In this forest there are a lot of tall trees.

Piedmontese

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /fuˈresta/

Noun

foresta f (plural foreste)

  1. forest

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin foresta.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /foˈɾesta/ [foˈɾes.t̪a]
  • Rhymes: -esta
  • Syllabification: fo‧res‧ta

Noun

foresta f (plural forestas)

  1. forest (dense collection of trees)
    Synonyms: bosque, floresta, selva

See also

Verb

foresta

  1. inflection of forestar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

Venetian

Adjective

foresta

  1. feminine singular of foresto
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