forestis

== Esperanto == === Verb === forestis past of foresti == Latin == === Etymology 1 === Likely from Proto-West Germanic *furhisti. The shape of the word in Latin recalls the adjective agrestis. ==== Alternative forms ==== foresta ==== Noun ==== forestis f (genitive forestis); third declension (Early Medieval Latin) a large area reserved for the use of the King or nobility, often a forest and often for hunting or fishing a forest in general ===== Declension ===== Third-declension noun (i-stem). ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== Franco-Provençal: forêt Occitan: forèst Old Catalan: forest Old French: forest (see there for further descendants) Reflexes of the variant foresta: (possibly some or all via Old French) Italian: foresta→ Maltese: foresta Old French: foreste Old Occitan: foresta Piedmontese: foresta Portuguese: floresta Sicilian: furesta Spanish: floresta ==== References ==== Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “forestis”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 443 === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== forestīs dative/ablative plural of foresta