forum

See also: förum, fórum, fórům, and Forum

English

Alternative forms

• 4m (Internet leet)
• 4rum (Internet leet)

Etymology

From Latin forum (“public market place, forum”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔːɹəm/
• Rhymes: -ɔːɹəm
• Hyphenation: fo‧rum

Noun

forum (plural forums or fora)

1. A place for discussion.
2. A gathering for the purpose of discussion.
3. A form of discussion involving a panel of presenters and often participation by members of the audience.
4. (Internet) An Internet message board where users can post messages regarding one or more topics of discussion.

   Trish was an admin on three forums, and had no trouble at all when it came to moderating them.

5. A square or marketplace in a Roman town, used for public business and commerce.

Usage notes

The English plural forums is preferred to the Latin plural fora in normal English usage.

• Ref: Modern English Usage, 2nd Edition, ed. Sir Ernest Gowers, Oxford 1968 (article '-um', p.658).
• Also, "The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style," by Bryan A. Garner. Berkley Books, 2000, (p. 156).

Related terms

• conforaneous (rare)

Translations

place for discussion

• Arabic: مُنْتَدَى‏‎ m (muntadā)
• Bulgarian: форум m (forum)
• Catalan: fòrum (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 論壇 (zh), 论坛 (zh) (lùntán), 座談會 (zh), 座谈会 (zh) (zuòtánhuì)

• Czech: fórum (cs) n
• Danish: forum n
• Esperanto: forumo
• Estonian: foorum
• Finnish: foorumi (fi)
• French: forum (fr) m
• German: Forum (de) n

• Ido: forumo (io)
• Italian: foro (it) m
• Maori: marae ātea
• Norwegian: forum (no) n, fora (no) pl
• Polish: forum (pl) n
• Portuguese: fórum (pt) m
• Russian: фо́рум (ru) m (fórum)
• Spanish: foro (es) m
• Swedish: forum (sv) n
• Tok Pisin: bungples
• Turkish: divan (tr), müzakere yeri, münteda, tartıştay
• Vietnamese: diễn đàn (vi)

gathering for the purpose of discussion

• Arabic: مُنْتَدَى‏‎ m (muntadā)
• Catalan: fòrum (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 論壇 (zh), 论坛 (zh) (lùntán), 座談會 (zh), 座谈会 (zh) (zuòtánhuì)

• Czech: fórum (cs) n
• Esperanto: kunveno
• Finnish: keskustelutilaisuus
• French: forum (fr) m
• German: Forum (de) n
• Italian: forum (it) m

• Maori: wānanga
• Norwegian: forum (no), fora (no) pl
• Persian: انجمن‏‎ (fa) (anjoman)
• Polish: forum (pl) n
• Portuguese: fórum (pt) m
• Russian: фо́рум (ru) m (fórum)
• Tok Pisin: bungples
• Turkish: tartıştay, forum (tr)
• Vietnamese: diễn đàn (vi)

form of discussion

• Arabic: مُنْتَدَى‏‎ m (muntadā)
• Bulgarian: свободна дискусия f (svobodna diskusija)
• Catalan: fòrum (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 座談會 (zh), 座谈会 (zh) (zuòtánhuì), 論壇 (zh), 论坛 (zh) (lùntán)

• Czech: fórum (cs) n
• Esperanto: forumo
• Estonian: foorum
• Finnish: paneelikeskustelu
• French: forum (fr) m

• German: Forum (de) n
• Italian: forum (it) m
• Japanese: 討論 (ja) (とうろん, tōron), 討論会 (とうろんかい, tōronkai)
• Korean: 토론 (討論) (ko) (toron)
• Norwegian: forum (no) n, fora (no) pl
• Polish: forum (pl) n
• Portuguese: fórum (pt) m
• Russian: фо́рум (ru) m (fórum)
• Turkish: tartıştay, forum (tr)
• Vietnamese: hội thảo (vi)

Internet message board

• Arabic: مُنْتَدَى‏‎ m (muntadā)
• Bulgarian: форум m (forum)
• Catalan: fòrum (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 論壇 (zh), 论坛 (zh) (lùntán), 討論板, 讨论板 (tǎolùnbǎn)

• Czech: fórum (cs) n
• Esperanto: forumo
• Estonian: foorum
• Finnish: keskustelupalsta (fi)
• French: forum (fr) m
• Galician: foro
• German: Forum (de) n
• Greek: φόρουμ (el) (fóroum)
• Ido: forumo (io)

• Italian: forum (it) m
• Japanese: フォーラム (ja) (fōramu), 伝言板 (dengonban)
• Norwegian: forum (no) n, fora (no) pl
• Persian: انجمن‏‎ (fa) (anjoman), تالار گفتگو‏‎ (tâlâr-e goftogu), فروم‏‎ (forom)
• Polish: forum (pl) n
• Portuguese: fórum (pt) m [de discussão]
• Russian: фо́рум (ru) m (fórum)
• Spanish: foro (es) m
• Swedish: forum (sv) n
• Tagalog: pagtitipon
• Tok Pisin: bungples
• Turkish: yazışmalık, forum (tr), tartıştay
• Vietnamese: diễn đàn (vi), 4rum (slang)

square or marketplace

• Estonian: foorum
• Finnish: tori (fi)

• Maori: marae ātea
• Vietnamese: chợ (vi)

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French

Etymology

• Borrowing from Latin forum.
• (Internet) Borrowing from English forum.

Pronunciation

• audio

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Noun

forum m (plural forums)

1. forum
2. forum (for Internet)

Further reading

• “forum” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Noun

forum m (invariable)

1. forum (all meanings)

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰworom (“enclosure, courtyard, i.e. something enclosed by the door”), accusative of *dʰwor-. Cognate with Old Church Slavonic дворъ (dvorŭ, “court, courtyard”), Sanskrit द्वार (dvā́ra, “door, gate, passage”) and Lithuanian dvãras (“estate”). This Proto-Indo-European neuter is a derivation of the basic root noun *dʰwer- (“door, gate”) that also gave Latin foris (“door; gate”) and forās (“outdoors”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.rum/, [ˈfɔ.rũ]

Noun

forum n (genitive forī); second declension

1. public place, marketplace, forum

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	forum	fora
genitive	forī	forōrum
dative	forō	forīs
accusative	forum	fora
ablative	forō	forīs
vocative	forum	fora

Derived terms

• forensis
• forica

Descendants

• Catalan: forum
• English: forum
• French: for, forum, fur
• German: Forum
• Italian: foro

• Portuguese: foro, fórum (borrowing)
• Romanian: for
• Spanish: foro, fuero
• Russian: фо́рум (fórum)

References

• forum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• forum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “forum”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “forum” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) at home; in one's native country: domi (opp. foris)
    
  • (ambiguous) credit has disappeared: fides (de foro) sublata est (Leg. Agr. 2. 3. 8)
    
  • (ambiguous) to shun publicity: publico carere, forum ac lucem fugere
    
• forum in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia^[2]
• forum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• forum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

forum n (definite singular forumet, indefinite plural fora or forumer, definite plural foraene or foruma or forumene)

1. a forum (place for discussion, either on the Internet or in real life)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

forum n (definite singular forumet, indefinite plural forum, definite plural foruma)

1. a forum (as above)

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Polish

Etymology

From Latin forum.

Pronunciation

• audio

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Noun

forum n

1. forum (all senses)

Declension

declension of forum

	singular	plural
nominative	forum	fora
genitive	forum	forów
dative	forum	forom
accusative	forum	fora
instrumental	forum	forami
locative	forum	forach
vocative	forum	fora

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin forum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fǒːrum/
• Hyphenation: fo‧rum

Noun

fórum m (Cyrillic spelling фо́рум)

1. forum

Declension

Declension of forum

	singular	plural
nominative	forum	forumi
genitive	foruma	foruma
dative	forumu	forumima
accusative	forum	forume
vocative	forume	forumi
locative	forumu	forumima
instrumental	forumom	forumima

Derived terms

• fórumskī