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Latin
Etymology
From fors (“chance”) + sit (“be”, subjunctive) + an (“whether”).
Pronunciation
Adverb
forsitan (not comparable)
- perhaps, perchance, maybe
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,
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References
- “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)