fors
Dutch
Pronunciation
Adjective
fors (comparative forser, superlative meest fors or forst)
Inflection
Declension of fors | ||||
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uninflected | fors | |||
inflected | forse | |||
comparative | forser | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | fors | forser | het forst het forste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | forse | forsere | forste |
n. sing. | fors | forser | forste | |
plural | forse | forsere | forste | |
definite | forse | forsere | forste | |
partitive | fors | forsers | — |
Adverb
fors
French
Noun
fors
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /fors/, [fɔrs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /fors/, [fɔrs]
Audio (Classical): (file)
Etymology 1
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From Proto-Indo-European *bʰértis (“the act of carrying”) (compare Old Irish brith, German Geburt, English bear, burden, Russian бремя (bremja) ("burden"), брать (bratʹ) ("to take"), Sanskrit भृति (bhṛti, “carrying”)), derivative of *bʰer-, whence also Latin ferō (“bring, carry”).
Noun
fors f (genitive fortis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | fors | fortēs |
Genitive | fortis | fortium |
Dative | fortī | fortibus |
Accusative | fortem | fortēs fortīs |
Ablative | forte | fortibus |
Vocative | fors | fortēs |
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Etymology 2
From contraction of fors sit (“it might happen”)
Alternative forms
Adverb
fors (not comparable)
References
- “fors”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fors”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “fors”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- fors 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)
- fors in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) quite accidentally, fortuitously: temere et fortuito; forte (et) temere
- (ambiguous) to be brave by nature: animo forti esse
- (ambiguous) personally brave: manu fortis
- (ambiguous) quite accidentally, fortuitously: temere et fortuito; forte (et) temere
- fors in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Middle French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French fors, from Latin foris.
Preposition
fors
Old French
Etymology
Adverb
fors
Preposition
fors
- outside
- apart from
- circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
- Et je reconois et otroi
Que nus n'i a coupes fors moi- And I recognize and admit
- That nobody is responsible apart from me
- Et je reconois et otroi
- circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
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Descendants
Old Norse
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *fursaz, from Pre-Germanic *pŕ̥sos, from Proto-Indo-European *pers- (“to spray, splash”).
Noun
fors m (genitive fors, plural forsar)
Declension
Descendants
- Danish: fos
- Faroese: fossur
- Icelandic: foss
- Norwegian: foss
- Old Swedish: fors
- Swedish: fors
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References
- “fors”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fors”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “fors”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- fors 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)
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) quite accidentally, fortuitously: temere et fortuito; forte (et) temere
- (ambiguous) to be brave by nature: animo forti esse
- (ambiguous) personally brave: manu fortis
- (ambiguous) quite accidentally, fortuitously: temere et fortuito; forte (et) temere
- fors in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[4], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Old Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse fors, from Proto-Germanic *fursaz.
Noun
fors m
Declension
Descendants
- Swedish: fors
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish fors, from Old Norse fors, from Proto-Germanic *fursaz.
Pronunciation
Noun
fors c
Declension
Declension of fors | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | fors | forsen | forsar | forsarna |
Genitive | fors | forsens | forsars | forsarnas |
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