fore
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fɔː/
- (General American) IPA(key): /fɔɹ/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /fo(ː)ɹ/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /foə/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
- Homophones: four, for (in accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
Etymology 1
A development of the prefix fore-.
Adjective
fore (comparative former, superlative foremost)
- (obsolete) Former; occurring earlier (in some order); previous. [15th-18th c.]
- the fore part of the day
- 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 […]
Translations
Interjection
fore
- (golf) An exclamation yelled to inform players a ball is moving in their direction.
Translations
Noun
fore (uncountable)
- 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
Translations
Adverb
fore (not comparable)
Cornish
French
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfo.re/, [ˈfɔ.rɛ]
Etymology 1
See foris.
Etymology 2
Formally present active infinitive corresponding to fui (“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".
Verb
fore
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, 1883–1887)
- fore in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Middle English
Welsh
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) (standard) (colloquial) IPA(key): /ˈvɔrɛ/
- (North Wales) (colloquial) IPA(key): /ˈvɔra/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈvoːrɛ/, /ˈvɔrɛ/