forsa

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See also: forsą, forša, foršā, and fórsa

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Etymology

From Late Latin fortia, a noun derived from the neuter plural of Latin fortis (“strong”).

Noun

forsa f

  1. force

Old Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

for (“on”) +‎ -a (relative pronoun)

Pronoun

forsa·

  1. on whom, on which

Etymology 2

Univerbation of for (“on”) +‎ a (“the”, neuter accusative singular)

Article

forsa (triggers eclipsis)

  1. on the n sg

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Late Latin fortia, a noun derived from the neuter plural of Latin fortis (“strong”). Compare Old French force.

Noun

forsa f (oblique plural forsas, nominative singular forsa, nominative plural forsas)

  1. force (physical effort)

Descendants

  • Occitan: fòrça

References

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese força, from Late Latin fortia.

Noun

forsa

  1. force, power

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French force.

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -ɔrsa
  • Syllabification: for‧sa

Noun

forsa f

  1. (colloquial or dialectal, Far Masovian) dough, money
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pieniądze
  2. (obsolete) force, physical strength
  3. (obsolete or dialectal, Far Masovian) effort, forceful action
  4. (Far Masovian) crowd (large number of people)
  5. (Kielce) Synonym of przykład
    Dziecko ma do złego forsę z ojca. ― The child has a bad example of his father.

Declension

Declension of forsa
singular
nominative forsa
genitive forsy
dative forsie
accusative forsę
instrumental forsą
locative forsie
vocative forso

Further reading

  • forsa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • forsa in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “forsa”, in “O języku ludowym w powiecie przasnyskim”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 107
  • Władysław Siarkowski (1878) “forsa”, in “Materiały do etnografii ludu polskiego z okolic Kielc”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowej (in Polish), volume 2, chapter 3, Krakow: Komisyja Antropologiczna Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, page 246

Swedish

Etymology

fors (“rapid”) +‎ -a. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk fossa.

Verb

forsa (present forsar, preterite forsade, supine forsat, imperative forsa)

  1. to flow violently and profusely (of water or other liquid); to rush, to gush, to pour
    Vattnet forsade nedför berget
    Water rushed down the mountain
    Blodet forsade ur såret
    Blood gushed out of the wound
    Regnet forsade ner
    The rain poured down
  2. (figuratively, often with a particle like fram (“forth”)) to rush, to race (move quickly forward)
  3. (figuratively) to gush, to pour out (of words or the like)

Conjugation

Conjugation of forsa (weak)
active passive
infinitive forsa —
supine forsat —
imperative forsa —
imper. plural1 forsen —
present past present past
indicative forsar forsade — —
ind. plural1 forsa forsade — —
subjunctive2 forse forsade — —
present participle forsande
past participle —

1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

See also

References

Wikious
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