forest

• vt.木を植える、森にする
• n. フォレスト
• n.（森の）人の名前；（仏語）Furey；（英語、スペイン語）Forrester

この言葉の語源については異論がある。ラテン語のforest silvam、郊外の森、王家の狩猟場、森、郊外、語源foreign、silvam、森林、語源sylvanに由来するという説がある。 また、PIE *perkwu、オークの木、オークの森、語源firに由来するという説もある。

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’.
=> door, foreign, forfeit

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.).

1. The dampness of the forest did not agree with him physically.

彼の体は森の湿気に適応できない。

2.After the Norman Conquest the forest became a royal hunting presrve.

ノーマン征服後、この森は王立狩猟区となった。

3.Even carrying the camcorder while hiking in the forest was an effort.

森の中をハイキングするときは、ポータブルカメラを持っていても非常に骨が折れる。

4.The Philippines has just 6000 square kilometres of forest left.

フィリピンには6000平方キロの森林しか残っていない。

5.The forest was dark and silent,haunted by shadows and unseen presences.

この森は暗く静かで、幽霊や見えない幽霊がよく出没する。