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foire

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See also: foiré

French

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fwaʁ/
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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old French foire from a Vulgar Latin *fēria from the classical Latin noun fēriae.

Noun

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foire f (plural foires)

  1. a fair, an exposition
  2. artisans' market
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • Turkish: fuar

Etymology 2

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Inherited from Latin foria.

Noun

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foire f (plural foires)

  1. (vulgar) diarrhoea
  2. (figuratively, slang) fuckup, mess

Verb

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foire

  1. inflection of foirer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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Old French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From a Vulgar Latin *fēria, from the classical Latin plural noun fēriae.

Noun

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foire oblique singularf (oblique plural foires, nominative singular foire, nominative plural foires)

  1. celebration

Descendants

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References

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  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (foire, supplement)

Romanian

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Etymology

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From foi +‎ -re.

Noun

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foire f (plural foiri)

  1. squirminess

Declension

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative foire foirea foiri foirile
genitive-dative foiri foirii foiri foirilor
vocative foire, foireo foirilor