foruli

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin forus

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin -ulī

Latin forulī

From forus + -ulī.

Noun

forulī m pl (genitive forulōrum); second declension

1. bookcase or bookshelves

   Synonym: pēgma

   • 121 AD, Suetonius, De Vita Caesarum, volume II.31:

     [...]; condiditque [Sybillinos libros] duobus forulis aureatis sub Palatini Apollinis basi

     [...]; he placed them [the Sybilline books] in two gilded bookcases under the pedestal of Apollo Palatine's statue.

2. lower rows in the Circensian games
   • 8th century, Paulus Diaconus, chapter 84.14, in Epitome Festi De verborum significat (Epitome of Sextus Pompeius Festus's De verborum significatione):

     Fori significant et Circensia spectacula, ex quibus etiam minores forulos dicimus

     Fori means the rows of seats in a theater; from which we say forulī, the lower rows.

Declension

Second-declension noun, plural only.

	plural
nominative	forulī
genitive	forulōrum
dative	forulīs
accusative	forulōs
ablative	forulīs
vocative	forulī

Further reading

• “forulī”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “forulī”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “forulī”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.