fortia

Interlingua

Noun

fortia (plural fortias)

1. strength

Latin

Alternative forms

• forcia

Etymology

Originally the neuter plural of fortis (“strong, brave”), taken from expressions such as fortia facta 'brave deeds'. Attested in works such as the Formulary of Marculf.

Noun

fortia f (genitive fortiae); first declension (Early Medieval Latin)

1. force, violence

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fortia	fortiae
genitive	fortiae	fortiārum
dative	fortiae	fortiīs
accusative	fortiam	fortiās
ablative	fortiā	fortiīs
vocative	fortia	fortiae

Descendants

• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Istriot: forsa
  • Italian: forza (see there for further descendants)
  • Neapolitan: fuorza
  • Sicilian: forza
  • Venetan: forsa
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: fuarce
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Northern:
    • Old French: force, forche (northern), fors (see there for further descendants)
  • Southern:
    • Catalan: força
    • Old Occitan: forsa, forssa, forza
      • Occitan: fòrça
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Leonese: forçia
    • Asturian: fuercia, forcia
    • Leonese: fuercia, forcia
    • Mirandese: fuorça
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: força
    • Galician: forza
    • Portuguese: força
  • Spanish: fuerza
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *fortiāre (see there for further descendants)
• Borrowings:
  • → Interlingua: fortia

Adjective

fortia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of fortis

References

• "fortia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “fŏrtia”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 3: D–F, page 728