forane
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
See foreign.
Adjective[edit]
forane (comparative more forane, superlative most forane)
- Obsolete form of foreign.
- 1745, Guy Miege, The Present State of Great Britain, and Ireland, page 443:
- [T]he Bay of Galway [is] so well seated for Merchandize, that it has been lookd on as the greatest Place of Trade in all Ireland; insomuch that a forane Merchant meeting an Irishman, asked him in what Part of Galway Ireland stood?
Etymology 2[edit]
Borrowed from Medieval Latin forāneus (“from elsewhere, foreign, non-resident”), from forās (“outdoors”) + -āneus, likely formed by analogy with extrāneus.
Adjective[edit]
forane (not comparable) (postpositive)
- Only used in vicar forane and vicariate forane