Where does “forest” come from?

Forest comes from Middle English forest, from Old French forest, from Medieval Latin forestis, ultimately from Latin foris meaning "outside" and Proto-Indo-European dʰwer-.

forest (English): A dense uncultivated tract of trees and...

Definitions

  1. A dense uncultivated tract of trees and...

Ancestry of “forest”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle EnglishforestA forest or wood; A preserve for hunting...
2Old Frenchforestforest, royal hunting ground
3Latinforestisdative plural of foresta; ablative plural of...

Words derived from “forest

Every word from Latin forestis