LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
adverb

forās

forās (not comparable)
Classical[ˈfɔ.raːs]Ecclesiastical[ˈfɔː.ras]
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Meaning

  1. not comparableoutside, outdoors (destination)
    forās īreto go outside

Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers

Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book

foras mittere aliquem
to turn some one out of the house.
foras exire (Plaut. Amph. 1. 2. 35)
to go out of the house.
foras efferri, palam fieri, percrebrescere, divulgari, in medium proferri, exire, emanare
to become known, become a topic of common conversation (used of things).

fŏras, adv. acc. form like alias, alteras, utrasque; while foris is an abl. form; both from an obsol. nom. fora; Sanscr. dvār; Gr. θύρα; O. H. Germ. tor; Engl. door,
I. out through the doors, out of doors, forth, out (class.): crepuit foris: Amphitruo exit foras, Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 35; cf.: exeundum hercle tibi hinc est foras, id. Aul. 1, 1, 1: i foras, mulier, id. Cas. 2, 2, 36: quid tu foras egressa es? id. Am. 5, 1, 28; Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 38: foras aedibus me eici? Plaut. As. 1, 2, 1; cf.: homo hercle hinc exclusu'st foras, id. ib. 3, 3, 6: anum foras extrudit, id. Aul. prol. 38; id. Cas. 4, 1, 10: te huc foras seduxi, Ut, etc., id. Aul. 2, 1, 14: sese portā foras universi proripiunt, Caes. B. C. 2, 12, 1: portis se foras erumpunt, id. ib. 2, 14, 1: fer cineres, Amarylli, foras, Verg. E. 8, 101: filium foras mittere ad cenam, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26, § 65: quae (urbs) laetari mihi videtur, quod tantam pestem evomuerit forasque projecerit, id. Cat. 2, 1, 2: vides, tuum peccatum esse elatum foras, Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 65; cf.: domus, in qua nihil geratur, quod foras perferendum sit, Cic. Cael. 23, 57; and: efferri hoc foras et ad populi Romani aures pervenire, id. Phil. 10, 3, 6; cf. Lucr. 3, 123: si (animus) eminebit foras, et ea quae extra sunt contemplans, etc., Cic. Rep. 6, 26; cf.: justitia foras spectat et projecta tota est atque eminet, id. Fragm. ap. Non. 373, 25 (Rep. 3, 7 ed. Mos.): (scripta) foras dare, to spread abroad, publish, = edere, proferre, id. Att. 13, 22, 3: vendere, Plaut. Stich. 1, 3, 66: locitare agellum, to strangers, Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 26: uxor, vade foras, aut moribus utere nostris, i. e. leave the house, separale from me, Mart. 11, 104, 1.—
(b). Connected with a noun: ite hac simul heri damnigeruli, foras gerones, Bonorum hamaxagogae, carriers out, Plaut. Truc. 2, 7, 1.—
(g). Post-class. with gen., or like a preposition with the acc.: ea namque tabes, si foras corporis prospiravit, out of the body, ἐκτὸς τοῦ σώματος, App. Mag. p. 306, 11: extra urbem et foras portam, outside of, without, Hier. in Matt. 27, 33; so, foras exteriorem partem, Vulg. Ezech. 47, 2: usque foras civitatem, id. Act. 21, 5.—
2. For foris, abroad: foras cenare, Petr. 30.

Origins

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dʰwer-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*dʰworéh₂
  3. Proto-Italic*þworā
  4. Proto-Italic*fworā
  5. Proto-Italic*forā
  6. Latinforās

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂der. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ns Proto-Italic *-ans Latin -ās Latin forās Adverbial accusative of obsolete *fora (“door”), from Proto-Italic *forā, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer- (“door, gate”), whence also forīs (“door”).

Descendants
  • Catalanfora
  • Italianfuora
  • Italianfora
  • Occitanfòra
  • Portuguesefora
  • Portugueseafora
  • Romanianfără
  • Romanianafară
  • Spanishfuera
  • Spanishafuera

In English words that came into English from forās

  • foreign*forānus
  • foraneforāneus

Quick answers

What does forās mean in Latin?
forās, a adverb, means “outside, outdoors (destination)”.
How do you pronounce forās?
In classical Latin, [ˈfɔ.raːs]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [ˈfɔː.ras].
Where does forās come from?
Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer- → Proto-Indo-European *dʰworéh₂ → Proto-Italic *þworā → Proto-Italic *fworā → Proto-Italic *forā → Latin forās.