# forum
## English
### Alternative forms

* 4m (Internet leet)
* 4rum (Internet leet)

### Etymology

From Latin forum (“public market place, forum”). Doublet of fuero and door.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈfɔːɹəm/
    Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈfɔɹəm/
* (General Australian, New Zealand, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /ˈfoːɹəm/
* Rhymes: -ɔːɹəm
* Hyphenation: fo‧rum

### Noun

forum (plural forums or fora)
* A place for discussion.
* A gathering for the purpose of discussion; a symposium.
* A form of discussion involving a panel of presenters and often participation by members of the audience.
* (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.
* (historical) 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 everyday 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).

#### Derived terms

* choice of forum agreement
* choice of forum clause
* cyberforum
* e-forum
* forum clause
* forumgoer
* foruming
* forumite
* forum non conveniens
* forum selection agreement
* forum selection clause
* forum shopping
* forum weapon
* subforum
* teleforum

#### Related terms

* conforaneous (rare)

#### Descendants

* → Italian: forum
* → Korean: 포럼 (poreom)

#### Translations
## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin forum. The sense “Internet forum” comes from English forum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfoː.rʏm/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: fo‧rum

### Noun

forum n (plural fora or forums, diminutive forumpje n)
* forum (ancient Roman marketplace)
* forum (venue, medium, vehicle; general place of exchange)
* Internet forum
    Synonym: internetforum

#### Usage notes

All senses can use the plural fora. The plural forums is predominantly used for the sense “Internet forum”.

#### Derived terms

* internetforum

#### Related terms

* foor

## French
### Etymology

* Most meanings: Learned borrowing from Latin forum.
* Internet: Borrowed from English forum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɔ.ʁɔm/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

forum m (plural forums)
* forum
* Internet forum

### Further reading

* “forum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Indonesian
### Alternative forms

* fora (nonstandard)

### Etymology

From Dutch forum, from Latin forum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈforum/
* Hyphenation: fo‧rum

### Noun

forum
* forum (a place for discussion)
* institution, body
    Synonyms: lembaga, wadah
* meeting, session, assembly
    Synonym: sidang

### Further reading

* forum on the Indonesian Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{id}$

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English forum, borrowed from Latin forum. Doublet of foro.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɔ.rum/
* Rhymes: -ɔrum
* Hyphenation: fò‧rum

### Noun

forum m (invariable)
* forum (gathering for the purposes of discussion)
* (by extension, usually capitalized) venue, auditorium, arena
* (Internet) forum (message board)

### Further reading

* forum in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *fworom, from earlier *θworom, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwor-om (“enclosure, courtyard, i.e. something enclosed by the door, or the place outside, i.e. through the door”), from *dʰwer- (“door, gate”).
Cognate with foris, forās, Old Church Slavonic дворъ (dvorŭ, “court, courtyard”), Sanskrit द्वार (dvā́ra, “door, gate, passage”) and Lithuanian dvãras (“estate”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈfo.rum/, [ˈfɔrʊ̃ˑ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈfo.rum/, [ˈfɔːrum]

### Noun

forum n (genitive forī); second declension
* public place, marketplace, forum

#### Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

#### Derived terms

* forensis
* forica

#### Descendants

* Catalan: fur, → fòrum (learned)
* Chechen: хӏорам (horam)
* French: for, fur, → forum (learned)
* Galician: foro
* Italian: foro
* Portuguese: foro → fórum (learned)
* Romanian: for
* Sicilian: foru
* Old Spanish: fuero
** Spanish: foro, → fuero (learned)
* → English: forum
** → Italian: forum
** → Korean: 포럼 (poreom)
* → German: Forum
* → Russian: фо́рум (fórum)
** → Kazakh: форум (forum)
* → Turkish: forum

### 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
* "forum", 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)
* forum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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
* “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

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

forum n (definite singular forumet, indefinite plural fora or forumer, definite plural foraene or foruma or forumene)
* a forum (place for discussion, either on the Internet or in real life)

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

forum n (definite singular forumet, indefinite plural forum, definite plural foruma)
* a forum (as above)

## Polish
### Etymology

From Latin forum. Doublet of dwór (“court, courtyard”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɔ.rum/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔrum
* Syllabification: fo‧rum

### Noun

forum n
* forum (all senses)

#### Derived terms

* forowy
* forumowy
* forowicz
* forumowicz

### Further reading

* forum in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* forum in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin forum.

### Noun

forum n (plural forumuri)
* forum

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

From Latin forum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fǒːrum/
* Hyphenation: fo‧rum

### Noun

fórum m (Cyrillic spelling фо́рум)
* forum

#### Derived terms

* fórumskī

## Swedish
### Noun

forum n
* a forum (place, gathering, or group)
* (Internet) a forum
* (historical) a forum

#### Declension
### References

* forum in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* forum in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* forum in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

## Turkish
### Etymology

From Latin forum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /foˈɾum/
* Rhymes: -rum

### Noun

forum (definite accusative forumu, plural forumlar)
* forum
* Internet forum

#### Declension

singular
plural
nominative
forum
forumlar
definite accusative
forumu
forumları
dative
foruma
forumlara
locative
forumda
forumlarda
ablative
forumdan
forumlardan
genitive
forumun
forumların
Possessive forms
nominative
singular
plural
1st singular
forumum
forumlarım
2nd singular
forumun
forumların
3rd singular
forumu
forumları
1st plural
forumumuz
forumlarımız
2nd plural
forumunuz
forumlarınız
3rd plural
forumları
forumları
definite accusative
singular
plural
1st singular
forumumu
forumlarımı
2nd singular
forumunu
forumlarını
3rd singular
forumunu
forumlarını
1st plural
forumumuzu
forumlarımızı
2nd plural
forumunuzu
forumlarınızı
3rd plural
forumlarını
forumlarını
dative
singular
plural
1st singular
forumuma
forumlarıma
2nd singular
forumuna
forumlarına
3rd singular
forumuna
forumlarına
1st plural
forumumuza
forumlarımıza
2nd plural
forumunuza
forumlarınıza
3rd plural
forumlarına
forumlarına
locative
singular
plural
1st singular
forumumda
forumlarımda
2nd singular
forumunda
forumlarında
3rd singular
forumunda
forumlarında
1st plural
forumumuzda
forumlarımızda
2nd plural
forumunuzda
forumlarınızda
3rd plural
forumlarında
forumlarında
ablative
singular
plural
1st singular
forumumdan
forumlarımdan
2nd singular
forumundan
forumlarından
3rd singular
forumundan
forumlarından
1st plural
forumumuzdan
forumlarımızdan
2nd plural
forumunuzdan
forumlarınızdan
3rd plural
forumlarından
forumlarından
genitive
singular
plural
1st singular
forumumun
forumlarımın
2nd singular
forumunun
forumlarının
3rd singular
forumunun
forumlarının
1st plural
forumumuzun
forumlarımızın
2nd plural
forumunuzun
forumlarınızın
3rd plural
forumlarının
forumlarının :