Forensic means using science to investigate crime. Forensic evidence, a forensic examination, forensic accounting.
The Latin means belonging to the forum, where Roman cases were argued, so forensic strictly means to do with courts rather than with laboratories. Forensic accounting is the same idea applied to books rather than bodies.
1adjectiveforensicUsing science to investigate crime.
“Forensic scientists found the suspect's fingerprints on the knife.”
forensic is a quality.
The Latin behind it is the public square where cases were argued out loud. Forensic still means the kind of evidence you can take into court.
hooks ontocourt
Latin forensis means of the forum, where legal cases were heard.
Proto-Indo-European
*dʰwer-
English, today
forensic
Built from
From forēnsis + ic, from forum (“forum, marketplace”).
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