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forest: forest: [13] The underlying sense of forest appears to be ‘outside wooded area’. It comes from the late Latin phrase forestis silva (Latin silva means ‘wood’), which was applied to the royal forests of Charlemagne. The adjective forestis (which became the Old French noun forest) was probably a derivative of Latin forīs ‘outdoor, outside’, which, like forās (source of English foreign), was related to Latin forēs ‘door’. In this context, ‘outside’ presumably meant ‘beyond the main or central fenced area of woodland’.
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aforesaid (adj.): late 14c., from afore + said.
anchoress (n.): "female recluse, nun," late 14c.; see anchorite + -ess.
deforest (v.): 1880 in modern sense, from de- + forest. Related: Deforested; deforesting. Disforest in the sense "to clear of trees" is from 1660s. Disafforest is attested in this sense from 1842; originally it meant "reduce from the legal status of a forest" (1590s).
deforestation (n.): 1884, from deforest + -ation. Earlier was deforesting (1530s) which was a legal term for the change in definition of a parcel of land from "forest" to something else.
Dolores: fem. proper name, from Spanish Maria de los Dolores, literally "Mary of the Sorrows," from plural of dolor, from Latin dolor "pain, sorrow."
effloresce (v.): "to come into flower," 1775, from Latin efflorescere, inceptive form (in Late Latin simplified to efflorere) "to blossom, spring up, flourish, abound," from ex "out" (see ex-) + florescere "to blossom," from flos (see flora). Sense in chemistry is from 1788.
efflorescence (n.): 1620s, "a bursting into flower, act of blossoming out," from French efflorescence, from Latin efflorescentem (nominative efflorescens), present participle of efflorescere "to bloom, flourish, blossom" (see effloresce). Sense in chemistry is from 1660s.
efflorescent (adj.): 1741, from Latin efflorescentem (nominative efflorescens), present participle of efflorescere "to bloom, flourish" (see effloresce).
florescence (n.): "process of flowering," 1764, from Modern Latin florescentia, from Latin florescentem (nominative florescens) "blooming," present participle of florescere "to begin to bloom," inceptive of florere "to blossom" (see flourish (v.)).
florescent (adj.): "bursting into bloom," 1784, from Latin florescentem, present participle of florescere "to begin to bloom" (see florescence).
fluoresce (v.): 1866 (implied in fluoresced), back-formation from fluorescence. Related: Fluorescing.
fluorescence (n.): 1852, "property of glowing in ultraviolet light," coined by English mathematician and physicist Sir George G. Stokes (1819-1903) from fluorspar (see fluorine), because in it he first noticed the phenomenon, + -escence, on analogy of phosphorescence.
fluorescent (adj.): 1853 (Stokes), from fluor- (see fluoro-) + -escent (see fluorescence). The electric fluorescent lamp was invented by Edison in 1896, but such lights were rare in homes before improved bulbs became available in the mid-1930s.
foresee (v.): Old English foreseon "have a premonition," from fore- "before" + seon "to see, see ahead" (see see (v.)). Perhaps modeled on Latin providere. Related: Foresaw; foreseeing; foreseen. Similar formation in Dutch voorzien, German vorsehen.
foreseeable (adj.): 1804, from foresee + -able. Related: Foreseeably.
foreshadow (v.): "indicate beforehand," 1570s, figurative, from fore- + shadow (v.); the notion seems to be a shadow thrown before an advancing material object as an image of something suggestive of what is to come. Related: Foreshadowed; foreshadowing. As a noun from 1831. Old English had forescywa "shadow," forescywung "overshadowing."
foreshorten (v.): c. 1600, from fore- + shorten. Related: Foreshortened; foreshortening.
foresight (n.): also fore-sight, early 14c., "insight obtained beforehand;" also "prudence," from fore- + sight (n.). Perhaps modeled on Latin providentia. Compare German Vorsicht "attention, caution, cautiousness."
foreskin (n.): 1530s, from fore- + skin (n.). A loan-translation of Latin prepuce.
forest (n.): late 13c., "extensive tree-covered district," especially one set aside for royal hunting and under the protection of the king, from Old French forest "forest, wood, woodland" (Modern French forêt), probably ultimately from Late Latin/Medieval Latin forestem silvam "the outside woods," a term from the Capitularies of Charlemagne denoting "the royal forest." This word comes to Medieval Latin, perhaps via a Germanic source akin to Old High German forst, from Latin foris "outside" (see foreign). If so, the sense is "beyond the park," the park (Latin parcus; see park (n.)) being the main or central fenced woodland.

Another theory traces it through Medieval Latin forestis, originally "forest preserve, game preserve," from Latin forum in legal sense "court, judgment;" in other words "land subject to a ban" [Buck]. Replaced Old English wudu (see wood (n.)). Spanish and Portuguese floresta have been influenced by flor "flower."
forest (v.): "cover with trees or woods," 1818 (forested is attested from 1610s), from forest (n.).
forestall (v.): late 14c. (implied in forestalling), "to lie in wait for;" also "to intercept goods before they reach public markets and buy them privately," which formerly was a crime (mid-14c. in this sense in Anglo-French), from Old English noun foresteall "intervention, hindrance (of justice); an ambush, a waylaying," literally "a standing before (someone)," from fore- "before" + steall "standing position" (see stall (n.1)). Modern sense of "to anticipate and delay" is from 1580s. Related: Forestalled; forestalling.
forester (n.): late 13c. (late 12c. as a surname), "officer in charge of a forest," from Old French forestier "forest ranger, forest-dweller" (12c., also, as an adjective, "wild, rough, coarse, unsociable"), from forest (see forest (n.)).
forestry (n.): 1690s, "privilege of a royal forest," from forest (n.) + -ry or else from Old French foresterie, from forest (see forest (n.)). Meaning "science of managing forests" is from 1859.
inflorescence (n.): 1760, from Modern Latin inflorescentia, from Late Latin inflorescentem (nominative inflorescens) "flowering," present participle of Latin inflorescere "to come to flower," from in- "in" (see in- (2)) + florescere "to begin to bloom" (see flourish).
mores (n.): "customs," 1907, from Latin mores "customs, manners, morals" (see moral (adj.)).
Moresco (adj.): 1550s, from Italian moresco, from Moro (see Moor).
Orestes: son of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra, from Greek Orestes, literally "mountaineer," from oros "mountain" (see oread).
phoresis (n.): see phoresy.
phoresy (n.): 1914, from French phorésie (1896), from Greek phoresis "being carried," from pherein "to carry" (see infer).
phosphorescence (n.): 1796, from verb phosphoresce (1794; see phosphorescent) + -ence.
phosphorescent (adj.): 1766, from Modern Latin phosphorus (see phosphorus) + -escent. Related: Phosphorescently.
prioress (n.): c. 1300, from Medieval Latin priorissa, from prior "head of a priory of men" (see prior (n.)).
rain forest (n.): 1899, apparently a loan-translation of German Regenwald, coined by A.F.W. Schimper for his 1898 work "Pflanzengeographie."
reforest (v.): "to restore to a wooded condition," 1831, from re- "back, again" + verb use of forest (n.). Related: Reforested; reforesting.
s'mores: snack treat, 1937, from childish contraction of some more, as in "I'd like some more of those." S'more as a contraction is recorded by 1887.
unforeseeable (adj.): 1670s, from un- (1) "not" + foreseeable (see foresee). Related: Unforeseeably.
unforeseen (adj.): late 14c., from un- (1) "not" + past participle of foresee. Similar formation in Middle Dutch onvoresien, Dutch onvoorzien, Middle High German unvorsen.
whoreson (n.): c. 1300, from whore (n.) + son. Often used affectionately, it translates Anglo-French fiz a putain. As an adjective, "mean, scurvy, contemptuous," from mid-15c.
afforest: "Convert (land) into forest, especially for commercial exploitation", Early 16th century: from medieval Latin afforestare, from ad- 'to' (expressing change) + foresta 'forest'.
disafforest: "another term for deforest", Late Middle English (in sense 2): from Anglo-Latin disafforestare.
electrophoresis: "The movement of charged particles in a fluid or gel under the influence of an electric field", Early 20th century: from electro- + Greek phorēsis 'being carried'.
diaphoresis: "Sweating, especially to an unusual degree as a symptom of disease or a side effect of a drug", Late 17th century: via late Latin from Greek, from diaphorein 'carry off, sweat out', from dia 'through' + phorein 'carry'.