forsitan

From fors (“chance”) + sit (“be”, subjunctive) + an (“whether”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfor.si.tan/, [ˈfɔr.sɪ.tan]

forsitan (not comparable)

1. perhaps, perchance
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Tobiae.3.19:

     et aut ego indigna fui illis aut illi mihi forsitan digni non fuerunt quia forsitan viro alio conservasti me

     And either I was unworthy of them, or they perhaps were not worthy of me: because perhaps thou hast kept me for another man,

• (perhaps): forsan, forsit, fortasse, fortassis, forte

• forsitan in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• forsitan in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• forsitan in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)