fore

See also: Fore, fóre, foré, forè, fôre, före, főre, fore-, and føre

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔː/
• IPA^(key): /fɔɹ/
• IPA^(key): /fo(ː)ɹ/
• IPA^(key): /foə/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophones: four, for (in accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

(deprecated template usage)

Etymology 1

A development of the prefix fore-.

Adjective

fore (comparative former, superlative foremost)

1. (obsolete) Former; occurring earlier (in some order); previous. [15th-18th c.]

   the fore part of the day

2. Forward; situated towards the front (of something). [from 16th c.]

   the fore end of a wagon

   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 23:

     Crystal vases with crimson roses and golden-brown asters were set here and there in the fore part of the shop […]

Antonyms

• (order): latter
• (location): aft

Translations

former; occurring earlier

• Bulgarian: предишен (bg) (predišen)
• Dutch: eerste (nl), eerdere (nl)
• Finnish: edellinen (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: ра́нний (ru) (ránnij)
• Swedish: tidigare (sv), före (sv)

forward; at or toward the front

• Bulgarian: преден (bg) (preden)
• Dutch: voorste (nl), voor-
• Finnish: etu-, keula-
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: takamua
• Polish: przedni (pl) m
• Russian: пере́дний (ru) (perédnij), носово́й (ru) (nosovój)

Interjection

fore

1. (golf) An exclamation yelled to inform players a ball is moving in their direction.

Translations

in golf: yelled to inform players a ball is moving in their direction

• Finnish: fore (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: ファー (faa)

Noun

fore (uncountable)

1. The front; the forward part of something; the foreground.

   The fore was painted white.

   • 2002, Mark Bevir, The Logic of the History of Ideas:

     People face a dilemma whenever they bring to the fore an understanding that appears inadequate in the light of the other beliefs they bring to bear on it.

Related terms

• fore-and-aft
• foremost
• forehead

Translations

front

• Bulgarian: нос (bg) m (nos)
• Dutch: voorkant (nl) m
• Finnish: etuosa, keula (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Galician: testa (gl) f, fronte (gl) f
• Russian: нос (ru) m (nos) (of a ship), пе́ред (ru) m (péred), пере́дняя ча́сть f (perédnjaja částʹ)

Adverb

fore (not comparable)

1. In the part that precedes or goes first; opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.
2. (obsolete) Formerly; previously; afore.
   • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     The eyes, fore duteous, now converted are.

3. (nautical) In or towards the bows of a ship.

Etymology 2

Verb

fore

1. (archaic) simple past of fare

Anagrams

• Freo, froe, o-fer, ofer, orfe

---

Cornish

Noun

fore

1. Mixed mutation of bore.

---

Esperanto

Etymology

for +‎ -e

Adverb

fore

1. far away

---

French

Verb

fore

1. first-person singular present indicative of forer
2. third-person singular present indicative of forer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of forer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of forer
5. second-person singular imperative of forer

---

Ido

Etymology

for +‎ -e

Adverb

fore

1. (far) away, afar

---

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.re/, [ˈfɔrɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.re/, [ˈfɔːre]

Etymology 1

See foris.

Noun

(deprecated template usage) fore

1. ablative singular of foris

Etymology 2

Formally present active infinitive corresponding to fuī (“I have been”), irregular perfect indicative of sum (“I am”). From Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become, be”), cognate with Old English bēo (“I become, I will be, I am”). In classical Latin, the fu- forms of sum are mostly limited to the perfect tenses, but old Latin has alternate present and imperfect subjunctive forms fuam and forem (for classical sim and essem) suggesting the root could once be fully conjugated. After being incorporated in the conjugation of sum, the meaning of fore shifted from the original "to become" to the classical "to be going to be".

Alternative forms

• futūrus esse

Verb

(deprecated template usage) fore

1. future active infinitive of sum

Usage notes

• Also used in the construction fore ut in place of a future passive infinitive in indirect discourse:

  Crēdō fore ut ea laudētur.

  I believe she will be praised.

  (literally, “I believe it to be going to be that she is praised.”)

References

• “fore”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fore”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fore in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• fore in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

---

Middle English

Noun

fore

1. fore

Descendants

• Scots: fore
• English: fore

Numeral

fore

1. four

Conjunction

fore

1. therefore

---

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔrɛ/
  • IPA^(key): /ˈvɔra/
• IPA^(key): /ˈvoːrɛ/, /ˈvɔrɛ/

Noun

fore

1. Soft mutation of bore (“morning”).

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
bore	fore	more	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.