foruli
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]forulī m pl (genitive forulōrum); second declension
- bookcase or bookshelves
- Synonym: pēgma
- 121 AD, Suetonius, De Vita Caesarum, volume II.31:
- [...]; 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.
- lower rows in the Circensian games
- 8th century, Paulus Diaconus, chapter 84.14, in Epitome Festi De verborum significat (Epitome of Sextus Pompeius Festus's De verborum significatione):
- 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.
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun, plural only.
| plural | |
|---|---|
| nominative | forulī |
| genitive | forulōrum |
| dative | forulīs |
| accusative | forulōs |
| ablative | forulīs |
| vocative | forulī |
Further reading
[edit]- “forulī”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “forulī”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- forulī in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.