fors

English

Noun

fors pl (plural only)

1. Only used in fors and againsts

Catalan

Noun

fors

1. plural of for

Dutch

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɔrs

Adjective

fors (comparative forser, superlative meest fors or forst)

1. stout, large
2. substantial, considerable

Inflection

Adverb

fors

1. strongly

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

fors

1. plural of for

Preposition

fors

1. except, save

   Tout est perdu fors l’honneur.

   All is lost save honour.

Further reading

• “fors”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fors/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fors/,

Etymology 1

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

fors f (genitive fortis); third declension

1. 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.’’)

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Related terms

Etymology 2

From contraction of fors sit (“it might happen”).

Alternative forms

• forsit
• fors sit

Adverb

fors (not comparable)

1. perhaps, perchance

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 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, 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
    
• fors in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Middle French

Alternative forms

• hors

Etymology

From Old French fors, from Latin foris.

Preposition

fors

1. apart from

Old French

Etymology

From Latin foris.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɾs/

Adverb

fors

1. outside

Preposition

fors

1. outside
2. 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

Related terms

• çafors
• defors

Descendants

• Middle French: fors
  • French: hors (or from defors)

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• foss

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fursaz, from Pre-Germanic *pŕ̥sos, from Proto-Indo-European *pers- (“to spray, splash”).

Noun

fors m (genitive fors, plural forsar)

1. a waterfall

Declension

Descendants

• Icelandic: fors, foss
  • → English: foss
• Faroese: fossur
• Norn: fors
• Norwegian: foss, fors
  • → Danish: fos, >? fors
    • Norwegian Bokmål: foss
• Old Swedish: fors
  • Swedish: fors
• Middle Danish: fors
  • >? Danish: fors (influenced by Norwegian)
• → Middle English: fors, force
  • English: force (in the sense of a waterfall) (Northern England)
• → Middle Low German: vorsch

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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
    
• fors in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• ᚠᚮᚱᛋ

Etymology

From Old Norse fors, from Proto-Germanic *fursaz.

Noun

fors m

1. torrent, stream
2. waterfall

Declension

gen_sg=fors
gen_sg_d=forsins
nom_sg=fors
nom_sg_d=fors

Descendants

• Swedish: fors

Portuguese

Noun

fors

1. plural of for

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish fors, from Old Norse fors, from Proto-Germanic *fursaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔʂː/

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Noun

fors c

1. a rapid, whitewater
2. a chute (in a river)

Declension

Related terms

• forsa

Walloon

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔʀ/

Noun

fors

1. plural of for