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forum (the inner court of conscience) /ˈfor/

noun#3669 most common

Also: tribunal, jurisdiction, seat of conscience

Example sentences

El are un for interior curat.
He has a clean inner conscience.
În forul meu interior, știu că am greșit.
In my inner conscience, I know I was wrong.
Fiecare decizie morală trece prin forul lăuntric.
Every moral decision passes through the inner tribunal of conscience.
Judecătorul a fost chemat să compară în forul competent.
The judge was called to appear before the competent tribunal.
Conflictul dintre datorie și dorință se dă în forul interior al fiecărui individ.
The conflict between duty and desire plays out in each individual's inner forum.
Filosofii disting între forul exterior, guvernat de legi, și forul interior, guvernat de conștiință.
Philosophers distinguish between the external forum, governed by laws, and the inner forum, governed by conscience.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeforulforurile
Genitiveforuluiforurilor
Accusativeforulforurile
Vocativeforuleforurilor

Word family

foruma public assembly or online discussion forum, a separate later borrowing
for interiorfixed phrase: one's inner conscience
for lăuntricsynonym fixed phrase, using the archaic word for 'inner'

Etymology

For comes from Latin forum, the public square where Romans held markets, assemblies, and trials. Romanian kept it as a learned borrowing, not as an everyday inherited word, and confined it almost entirely to the fixed phrase for interior or for lăuntric, a calque of the French for intérieur. The sense narrowed from a physical public place to an inner, private tribunal: the conscience.

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