Noun: foruli
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension: Second
Sample Sentences
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[...]; 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.) [121 AD, Suetonius, De Vita Caesarum, volume II.31:]
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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.) [8th century, Paulus Diaconus, chapter 84.14, in Epitome Festi De verborum significat (Epitome of Sextus Pompeius Festus's De verborum significatione):]
Nouns inflected like foruli
scacci,
Blannovii,
hendecasyllabi,
scacchi,
buttuti,
nonnulli,
Ambivareti,
morbilli,
Abelonii,
quadriiugi,
elegi,
nauci,
pauci,
Andi,
novissimi,
perpauci,
eximii,
trucanti,
foruli,
gemini, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Latin forus
3. Proto-Indo-European *-lós
4. Proto-Indo-European *-elós
5. Proto-Italic *-elos
6. Latin -ulī
7. Latin forulī
8. From forus + -ulī.
Translations