fors
See also: förs
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]fors pl (plural only)
- Only used in fors and againsts
Anagrams
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Noun
[edit]fors
Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]fors (comparative forser, superlative meest fors or forst)
Declension
[edit]| Declension of fors | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | |
Adverb
[edit]fors
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fors
Preposition
[edit]fors
Further reading
[edit]- “fors”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfɔrs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfɔrs]
Etymology 1
[edit]From Proto-Italic *fortis, 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”). For the semantic development, compare Proto-Germanic *buriz (“favorable wind”), from the same root.
Noun
[edit]fors f (genitive fortis); third declension
- luck, chance
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.507:
- fors suā cuique locō est
- Luck: And each place has its own.
(Ovid tells what happens when Ceres (mythology) visits a family living at a site later known as Eleusis. Although ‘‘fors’’ is sometimes translated as ‘‘destiny,’’ which may imply determination, Ovid's probable meaning is that of random chance; idiomatically, ‘‘good luck.’’)
- Luck: And each place has its own.
- fors suā cuique locō est
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun (i-stem).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | fors | fortēs |
| genitive | fortis | fortium |
| dative | fortī | fortibus |
| accusative | fortem | fortēs fortīs |
| ablative | forte | fortibus |
| vocative | fors | fortēs |
Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From contraction of fors sit (“it might happen”).
Alternative forms
[edit]Adverb
[edit]fors (not comparable)
References
[edit]- “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
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “fors”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
- "fors", 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)
- “fors”, 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
- (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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Middle French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French fors, from Latin foris.
Preposition
[edit]fors
Old French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]fors
Preposition
[edit]fors
- outside
- apart from
- c. 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
- And I recognize and admit
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Old Norse
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *fursaz, from Pre-Germanic *pŕ̥sos, from Proto-Indo-European *pers- (“to spray, splash”).
Noun
[edit]fors m (genitive fors, plural forsar)
Declension
[edit]| masculine | singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | fors | forsinn | forsar | forsarnir |
| accusative | fors | forsinn | forsa | forsana |
| dative | forsi | forsinum | forsum | forsunum |
| genitive | fors | forsins | forsa | forsanna |
Descendants
[edit]- Icelandic: fors, foss
- → English: foss
- Faroese: fossur
- Norn: fors
- Norwegian: foss, fors
- Old Swedish: fors
- Swedish: fors
- Middle Danish: fors
- >? Danish: fors (influenced by Norwegian)
- → Middle English: fors, force
- → Middle Low German: vorsch
Further reading
[edit]- “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
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “fors”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
- "fors", 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)
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[3], 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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[4], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Old Swedish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse fors, from Proto-Germanic *fursaz.
Noun
[edit]fors m
Declension
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| masculine | singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | forser | forsrin | forsar | forsanir, forsaner |
| accusative | fors | forsin | forsa | forsana |
| dative | forsi, forse | forsinum, forsenom | forsum, forsom | forsumin, forsomen |
| genitive | forss | forssins | forsa | forsanna |
Descendants
[edit]- Swedish: fors
Portuguese
[edit]Noun
[edit]fors
Swedish
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Etymology
[edit]From Old Swedish fors, from Old Norse fors, from Proto-Germanic *fursaz.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fors c
- a rapids, white water
- a chute (in a river)
Declension
[edit]| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | fors | fors |
| definite | forsen | forsens | |
| plural | indefinite | forsar | forsars |
| definite | forsarna | forsarnas |
Derived terms
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[edit]Noun
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