forte

See also: forté and fortë

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from either French fort (“strong”) or Portuguese forte (“strong”), from Latin fortis (“strong”). Doublet of fort and fortis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔːteɪ/, /ˈfɔːti/, /fɔːt/
• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɹteɪ/, /ˈfɔɹti/, /fɔɹt/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t

Noun

forte (plural fortes)

1. A strength or talent.

   He writes respectably, but poetry is not his forte.

2. The strong part of a sword blade, close to the hilt.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:forte

Translations

strength or talent

• Bulgarian: си́ла (bg) f (síla), силна страна f (silna strana)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 長處／长处 (zh) (chángchù), 长处 (zh) (chángchu)

• Faroese: styrki f
• Finnish: vahvuus (fi), vahva puoli
• German: starke Seite f, Stärke (de) f
• Hungarian: erősség (hu)
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• Japanese: 強み (ja) (つよみ, tsuyomi)
• Polish: mocna strona f
• Portuguese: forte (pt) m
• Russian: си́льная сторона́ f (sílʹnaja storoná), си́ла (ru) f (síla)
• Spanish: fuerte (es) m, punto fuerte m
• Swedish: stark sida c, styrka (sv) c

the strong part of a sword blade, close to the hilt

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: juuri (fi)
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• Hungarian: erős (hu)
• Russian: please add this translation if you can

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian forte (“strong”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔː.teɪ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɹ.teɪ/

Adjective

Forte notation.

forte (comparative fortissimo, superlative fortississimo)

1. (music) Loud. Used as a dynamic directive in sheet music in its abbreviated form, "f.", to indicate raising the volume of the music. (Abbreviated in musical notation with an f, the Unicode character 1D191.)

   This passage is forte, then there's a diminuendo to mezzo piano.

Translations

music: loud

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: forte (fi)
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• German: forte (de)
• Hungarian: forte (hu)
• Russian: фо́рте (ru) (fórtɛ)

Adverb

forte (comparative fortissimo, superlative fortississimo)

1. (music) Loudly.

   The musicians played the passage forte.

Related terms

• fortepiano
• fortissimo
• fortississimo
• mezzo forte
• pianoforte

Translations

music: loudly

• Bulgarian: форте (forte)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: fortena (fi), kovaa (fi), voimakkaasti (fi)
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• German: forte (de)
• Hungarian: forte (hu)
• Russian: форте (ru) (fórtɛ)

Noun

forte (plural fortes)

1. A passage in music to be played loudly; a loud section of music.

   This forte marks the climax of the second movement.

See also

• piano

Anagrams

• Foret, fetor, frote, ofter

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈforte/
• Hyphenation: for‧te

Adverb

forte

1. strongly

Related terms

• forta
• forto
• malforta
• perforto

See also

• fortika

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French

Adjective

forte

1. feminine singular of fort

Anagrams

• foret, forêt

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Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese forte, from Latin fortis, fortem (“strong”), from Old Latin forctis, fortis, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“to rise, high, hill”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɾte̝/

Adjective

forte m or f (plural fortes)

1. strong

Etymology 2

From praza forte, "strong place".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɾte̝/

Noun

forte m (plural fortes)

1. fortress

References

• Template:R:DDGM
• “forte” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin fortis, fortem, from Old Latin forctis, fortis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“to rise, high, hill”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: fòrte, IPA^(key): /ˈfɔrte/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔrte

Noun

forte m (uncountable)

1. fort, fortress

Synonyms

• fortezza
• fortilizio
• fortino
• bicocca
• piazzaforte
• roccaforte
• ridotta

Adjective

1. strong
2. (linguistics) stressed

   vocali forti ― stressed vowel

Synonyms

• robusto

Antonyms

• debole

Related terms

• fortemente
• fortezza
• fortificare
• forza

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Latin

Etymology 1

From the ablative of fors (“chance, luck”).

Noun

(deprecated template usage) forte

1. ablative singular of fors

Adverb

forte (not comparable)

1. by chance, accidentally
2. once, once upon a time
3. perhaps, perchance,
4. as luck would have it
5. as it (just so) happens/happened

Synonyms

• (by chance): fortuītō
• (perhaps): forsit, forsitan, fortasse, fortassis

Related terms

• fors
• forsan
• forsit
• forsitan
• fortasse
• fortassis
• fortuītus
• fortuītō
• fortūna

 

Etymology 2

From fortis.

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) forte

1. nominative singular neuter of fortis
2. vocative singular neuter of fortis
3. accusative singular neuter of fortis

References

• “forte”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “forte”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• forte 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)
• forte 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
    

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Norman

Adjective

forte f

1. feminine singular of fort

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

forte

1. definite singular of fort
2. plural of fort

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Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin fortis, fortem (“strong”), from Old Latin forctis, fortis, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“to rise, high, hill”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɾ.te/

Adjective

forte m or f (plural fortes)

1. strong; powerful (capable of producing great physical force)
2. (of wind, water, etc.) strong; fast moving etc.
3. (of a disease or symptom) strong; severe

Related terms

• fortaleza
• fortemente

Descendants

• Fala: forti
• Galician: forte
• Portuguese: forte

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese forte, from Latin fortis, fortem (“strong”), from Old Latin forctis, fortis, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“to rise, high, hill”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɾ.tɨ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔʁ.tʃi/, /ˈfɔχt͡ʃɪ/, /ˈfɔɾt͡ʃɪ/
  • IPA^(key): [ˈfɔhtɪ], [ˈfɔhtʲ], [ˈfɔʈʲ]

Noun

forte m (plural fortes)

1. strength (pronounced quality), strong suit
2. fortress

Adjective

1. capable of producing great force; strong; forceful

   O homem forte levantou o carro.

   The strong man lifted the car.

2. capable of withstanding great force; strong; durable
3. highly stimulating to the senses; intense; extreme; strong

   Senti um cheiro muito forte.

   I smelled a very strong odor.

4. (euphemistic) fat

Related terms

• força