A. English word
B. French word
C. Latin word
D. None of the above
Submitted by: Shafiq-ur-Rehman
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The first records of the word forest come from the 1200s. It comes from the first part of the Late Latin phrase forestis silva, meaning “an unenclosed wooded area” (as opposed to a park). Forestis comes from the Latin forīs, meaning “outside” (the same word is the root of the word foreign).
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