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Borrowed 1640–50; earlier fort < Middle French; disyllabic pronunciation by association with Italian forte, from Latinfortis(“strong”).Doublet of fort and fortis.
He writes respectably, but poetry is not his forte.
1837, L E L, chapter XV, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. In Three Volumes.">…], volume II, London: Henry Colburn,, →OCLC, page 115:
Between ourselves, the country is rather triste, and you have given me positively a sensation; yet my forte is not the Arcadian: however, I will do my petit possible to console you for the loss of le beau Lindor, who was my predecessor.
↑ 1.01.11.21.31.4“forte”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present. (which notates force words like this noun /ɔr, oʊr/, vs north words like this adjective as just /ɔr/)
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “forte”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Ita vītāst hominum quasi quom lūdās tesserīs: / sī illud quod maxumē opus est iactū nōn cadit, / illud quod cecidit forte, id arte ut corrigās.
In this way, human life is like when you play with dice: if most needed does not fall by a throw, instead you must artfully make the best of the one that fell by chance.
“forte”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“forte”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"forte", 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)
forte 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