forica

Latin

Etymology

For forica taberna "a shed outside", containing unattested *foricus (“being outside, public”), from forīs (“outside”) +‎ -icus. Compare Proto-Slavic *dvorьcь.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.ri.ka/, [ˈfɔrɪkä]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.ri.ka/, [ˈfɔːrikä]

Noun

forica f (genitive foricae); first declension

public latrine, restroom

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	forica	foricae
genitive	foricae	foricārum
dative	foricae	foricīs
accusative	foricam	foricās
ablative	foricā	foricīs
vocative	forica	foricae

References

“forica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“forica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
forica 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)
“forica”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “forica”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 527