fors
See also: förs
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔrs
Adjective
Inflection
Inflection 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 | — |
French
Latin
Etymology 1
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”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /fors/, [fɔrs]
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | fors | fortēs |
Genitive | fortis | fortium |
Dative | fortī | fortibus |
Accusative | fortem | fortēs fortīs |
Ablative | forte | fortibus |
Vocative | fors | fortēs |
Etymology 2
From contraction of fors sit (“it might happen”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /fors/, [fɔrs]
Audio (Classical) (file)
Alternative forms
- forsit
- fors sit
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, 1883–1887)
- fors in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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 (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Old French
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:
Related terms
- çafors
- defors
Old Norse
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *fursaz, from Pre-Germanic *pŕ̥sos, from Proto-Indo-European *pers- (“to spray, splash”).
Declension
Descendants
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, 1883–1887)
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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 (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish fors, from Old Norse fors, from Proto-Germanic *fursaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɔʂː/
Audio (file)
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