forge
English
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Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dʒ
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Old French forge, early Old French faverge, from Latin fabrica (“workshop”), from faber (“workman in hard materials, smith”) (genitive fabri). Cognate with Franco-Provençal favèrge.
Noun
forge (plural forges)
- Furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
- Workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
- The act of beating or working iron or steel.
- (Can we date this quote by Francis Bacon and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- In the greater bodies the forge was easy.
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Etymology 2
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "xno" is not valid. See WT:LOL. forger, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French forgier, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin fabrico (“to frame, construct, build”).
Verb
forge (third-person singular simple present forges, present participle forging, simple past and past participle forged)
- (metallurgy) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
- c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, scene ii, line 451:
- On Mars's armor forged for proof eterne
- 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
- Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. […]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
- To form or create with concerted effort.
- The politician's recent actions are an effort to forge a relationship with undecided voters.
- (Can we date this quote by John Locke and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Those names that the schools forged, and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use.
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- 2019 May 8, Jon Bailes, “Save yourself! The video games casting us as helpless children”, in The Guardian[1]:
- In The Last Guardian, a kidnapped boy forges an uneasy relationship with a frightening beast in order to survive.
- To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
- He had to forge his ex-wife's signature. The jury learned the documents had been forged.
- To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.
- 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras
- That paltry story is untrue, / And forged to cheat such gulls as you.
- 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras
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Etymology 3
Make way, move ahead, most likely an alteration of force, but perhaps from forge (n.), via notion of steady hammering at something. Originally nautical, in reference to vessels.
Verb
forge (third-person singular simple present forges, present participle forging, simple past and past participle forged)
- (often as forge ahead) To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually but steadily; to proceed towards a goal in the face of resistance or difficulty.
- The party of explorers forged through the thick underbrush.
- We decided to forge ahead with our plans even though our biggest underwriter backed out.
- (Can we date this quote by Thomas De Quincey and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- And off she [a ship] forged without a shock.
- (sometimes as forge ahead) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.
- With seconds left in the race, the runner forged into first place.
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French
Etymology
From Old French forge, from earlier faverge, inherited from Latin fābrica. Doublet of fabrique, which was borrowed.
Pronunciation
Noun
forge f (plural forges)
Descendants
- → Catalan: forja
- → Franco-Provençal: fôrge
- → Galician: forxa
- → Italian: forgia
- → Portuguese: forja
- → Romanian: forjă
- → Spanish: forja
Verb
forge
- first-person singular present indicative of forger
- third-person singular present indicative of forger
- first-person singular present subjunctive of forger
- third-person singular present subjunctive of forger
- second-person singular imperative of forger
Further reading
- “forge”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
Etymology
From older faverge, from Latin fābrica.
Noun
forge oblique singular, f (oblique plural forges, nominative singular forge, nominative plural forges)
- forge (workshop)
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