foria

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *foria, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrey-. Possible cognates include Lithuanian dergti and Old Norse dríta.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.ri.a/, [ˈfɔriä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.ri.a/, [ˈfɔːriä]

Noun

foria f (genitive foriae); first declension

1. diarrhea

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	foria	foriae
Genitive	foriae	foriārum
Dative	foriae	foriīs
Accusative	foriam	foriās
Ablative	foriā	foriīs
Vocative	foria	foriae

Derived terms

• conforiō
• foriō

Descendants

• Asturian: foria, fueira, horia
• French: foire
• Galician: foira, fória
• Occitan: foira
• Portuguese: esfoura, esfoira
• Romansch: foira, fuera, fuira, sfuira, sfuoira

References

• “foria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• foria 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)
• foria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.