foresta

See also: forestå and förestå

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin foresta.

Pronunciation

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Noun

foresta f (plural foreste)

1. forest

Derived terms

• foresta pluviale (“rainforest”)
• forestale
• forestazione
• riforestazione

 

Related terms

• forestiero
• fuori

See also

• bosco
• giungla
• selva

Anagrams

• foraste, fresato, sfaterò, sforate

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Latin

Alternative forms

• forestis, forasta, forestus

Etymology

Substantivisation of Late 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. Possibly derived from forīs (“outside, outdoors”) or based on forensis. Sometimes regarded as a borrowing from Frankish *forhist, from Proto-Germanic *furhiþą.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /foˈres.ta/, [fɔˈrɛs̠t̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /foˈres.ta/, [foˈrɛst̪ä]

Noun

foresta f (genitive forestae); first declension

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

• afforestō
• dēforestō
• forestālis
• forestārius
• forestātiō
• foresticolus
• forestō
• reforestātiō
• reforestō

 

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, fourest
    • French: forêt
  • 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, fforest, foreste
    • English: forest
    • Scots: forest
    • → Welsh: fforest
  • → Middle Irish: foraís
    • Irish: foraois
• 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:

• Old French: foreste
• Iberian:
  • Aragonese: foresta, floresta
  • Asturian: floresta, foresta
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: foresta, furesta
    • Galician: floresta
    • Portuguese: floresta
  • Old Spanish: foresta, furesta
    • Spanish: foresta, floresta
• Italian: foresta
  • → Maltese: foresta
• Old Occitan: foresta
  • Catalan: floresta
• Sardinian: foresta

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Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian foresta, from Latin foresta, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔˈrɛsta/

Noun

1. forest

   F'din il-foresta hemm ħafna siġar twal.

   In this forest there are a lot of tall trees.

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Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin foresta.

Noun

foresta f (plural forestas)

1. forest (dense collection of trees)

Synonyms

• bosque
• floresta
• selva

See also

• jungla

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Venetian

Adjective

foresta

1. feminine singular of foresto