Foras, Aduerb ad locum. Out of doores.Ne hinc foras ambulet. Plautus. That he go not hence out of doores.Dari foras scripta mea nolo.Cic.I will not haue my writings published abroad.Aer per os foras editus. Lucr. Aire breathed out.Eiecta foras anima. Lucret. Eminere foras.Cic. Ire foras. Horat. Foras exire.Plaut. Exire foras ex ædibus. Lucr. Foras locitare agellum.Terent.To let a peece of lande to a stranger. Foras præuerti. Plan. Proferre foras aliquid.Cic.To vtter or publishe abroade.Proljcere foras pestem.Cic.Foras vendere.Plaut.To sel to strangers.Foras vocari.Plaut.To be called or desired forsh.
Foro, foras, forâre. Plaut.To pserce or boare a hole.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
fŏras, adv. [acc. form like alias, alteras, utrasque; while foris is an abl. form; both from an obsol. nom. fora; Sanscr. dvār; Gr. qu/ra; O. H. Germ. tor; Engl. door], 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, e)kto\s tou= sw/matos, 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.
fŏro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [root bhar-, Zend. bar-, cut, bore; Gr. far-, fa/ros, plough; cf. fa/ragc, fa/rugc; Germ. bohren; Angl.-Sax. borian; Engl. bore], to bore, pierce (mostly post-Aug. and very rare). I.Lit.: forata arbos, Col. 5, 10, 20: bene foratas habere aures, Macr. S. 7, 3; Cels. 7, 29; Sid. Ep. 9, 13.—Comically: o carnificum cribrum, quod credo fore: Ita te forabunt patibulatum per vias Stimulis, Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 53.—II.Trop.: forati animi, full of holes, i. e. that retain nothing, Sen. Brev. Vit. 10.