foire

See also: foiré

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fwaʁ/

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Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French foire from a Vulgar Latin *fēria from the classical Latin noun fēriae.

Noun

foire f (plural foires)

1. a fair, an exposition
2. artisans' market

Derived terms

• bête de foire
• champ de foire
• comme larrons en foire
• foire aux questions
• foire d'empoigne

Related terms

• forain

Descendants

• → Turkish: fuar

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin foria.

Noun

foire f (plural foires)

1. (vulgar) diarrhoea
2. (figuratively, slang) fuckup, mess

Verb

foire

1. inflection of foirer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “foire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Old French

Alternative forms

• faire
• feire
• fere
• feyre

Etymology

From a Vulgar Latin *fēria, from the classical Latin plural noun fēriae.

Noun

foire oblique singular, f (oblique plural foires, nominative singular foire, nominative plural foires)

1. celebration
   • c. 1180, Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette:

     Quant la foire iert plainne au Lendi

     When the celebration was in full swing on Monday

Descendants

• French: foire
• → Middle English: feyre, faire, fare
  • English: fair
  • Yola: feyer, vaar

References

• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “foire”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.

Romanian

Etymology

From foi +‎ -re.

Noun

foire f (plural foiri)

1. squirminess

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	foire	foirea	foiri	foirile
genitive-dative	foiri	foirii	foiri	foirilor
vocative	foire, foireo		foirilor