different between forte vs forme

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed 1640–50; earlier fort < Middle French; disyllabic pronunciation by association with Italian forte, from Latin fortis (“strong”). Doublet of fort and fortis.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f??te?/, /?f??ti/, /f??t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f??te?/, /?f??ti/, /f??t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Noun

forte (plural fortes)

1. A strength or talent.

   He writes respectably, but poetry is not his forte.

2. The strong part of a sword blade, close to the hilt.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:forte

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian forte (“strong”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f??.te?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f??.te?/

Adjective

forte (comparative fortissimo, superlative fortississimo)

1. (music) Loud. Used as a dynamic directive in sheet music in its abbreviated form, "f.", to indicate raising the volume of the music. (Abbreviated in musical notation with an f, the Unicode character 1D191.)

   This passage is forte, then there's a diminuendo to mezzo piano.

Translations

Adverb

forte (comparative fortissimo, superlative fortississimo)

1. (music) Loudly.

   The musicians played the passage forte.

Related terms

• fortepiano
• fortissimo
• fortississimo
• mezzo forte
• pianoforte

Translations

Noun

forte (plural fortes)

1. A passage in music to be played loudly; a loud section of music.

   This forte marks the climax of the second movement.

See also

• piano

References

Anagrams

• Foret, fetor, frote, ofter

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f??d??]

Etymology 1

From Old Danish forta, fortæ (“space around a horse”), see fortov (“pavement”).

Noun

forte c (singular definite forten, plural indefinite forter)

1. (historical) open space in a village
2. (historical) enclosed cattle path

Declension

Further reading

• “Forte,1” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Etymology 2

From Italian forte, from Latin fortis (“strong”).

Adverb

forte

1. (music) forte, loudly

   Antonym: piano

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?forte/
• Hyphenation: for?te

Adverb

forte

1. strongly

Related terms

• forta
• forto
• malforta
• perforto

See also

• fortika

French

Adjective

forte

1. feminine singular of fort

Anagrams

• foret, forêt

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese forte, from Latin fortis, fortem (“strong”), from Old Latin forctis, fortis, from Proto-Indo-European *b?er??- (“to rise, high, hill”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f??te?/

Adjective

forte m or f (plural fortes)

1. strong

Etymology 2

From praza forte, "strong place".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f??te?/

Noun

forte m (plural fortes)

1. fortress

References

• “forte” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “forte” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “forte” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “forte” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin fortis, fortem, from Old Latin forctis, fortis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?er??- (“to rise, high, hill”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: fòrte, IPA^(key): /?f?r.te/
• Rhymes: -?rte

Noun

forte m (plural forti)

1. fort, fortress

   Synonyms: fortezza, fortilizio, fortino, bicocca, piazzaforte, roccaforte, ridotta

Adjective

forte (plural forti)

1. strong
2. (linguistics) stressed

Synonyms

• robusto

Antonyms

• debole

Related terms

• fortemente
• fortezza
• fortificare
• forza

Latin

Etymology 1

From the ablative of fors (“chance, luck”).

Noun

forte

1. ablative singular of fors

Adverb

forte (not comparable)

1. by chance, accidentally
2. once, once upon a time
3. perhaps, perchance,
4. as luck would have it
5. as it (just so) happens/happened

Synonyms

• (by chance): fortu?t?
• (perhaps): forsit, forsitan, fortasse, fortassis

Related terms

Etymology 2

From fortis.

Adjective

forte

1. nominative singular neuter of fortis
2. vocative singular neuter of fortis
3. accusative singular neuter of fortis

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• forte in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Norman

Adjective

forte f

1. feminine singular of fort

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

forte

1. definite singular of fort
2. plural of fort

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin fortis, fortem (“strong”), from Old Latin forctis, fortis, from Proto-Indo-European *b?er??- (“to rise, high, hill”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f??.te/

Adjective

forte m or f (plural fortes)

1. strong; powerful (capable of producing great physical force)
2. (of wind, water, etc.) strong; fast moving etc.
3. (of a disease or symptom) strong; severe

Related terms

• fortaleza
• fortemente

Descendants

• Fala: forti
• Galician: forte
• Portuguese: forte

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese forte, from Latin fortis, fortem (“strong”), from Old Latin forctis, fortis, from Proto-Indo-European *b?er??- (“to rise, high, hill”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?f??.t?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?f??.t??i/, [?f??.t???]
  • (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /?f?h.t?/, /f?ht?/, /f???/

Noun

forte m (plural fortes)

1. strength (pronounced quality), strong suit
2. fortress

Adjective

forte m or f (plural fortes, comparable)

1. capable of producing great force; strong; forceful

2. capable of withstanding great force; strong; durable
3. highly stimulating to the senses; intense; extreme; strong

4. (euphemistic) fat

Inflection

Related terms

• força

English

Noun

forme (plural formes)

1. Obsolete form of form.
2. (printing) Alternative form of form (“type etc. secured in a chase”)
   • 1978, David A. Bloestein, Introduction, John Marston, David A. Bloestein (editor), Parasitaster: Or, The Fawn, page 47,

     Both these formes, with running titles intact, were retained to print sheet D of Q2.

   • 1994, Jay L. Halio, Introduction, Jay L. Halio (editor), William Shakespeare, The First Quarto of King Lear, page 21,

     Q2 was printed in twenty-two formes.

   • 2011, Eugene Giddens, How to Read a Shakespearean Play Text, page 41,

     In casting off, the printing house would judge the length of a manuscript to determine both how many sheets would be needed, and what the divisions were between one forme and another. (A forme is one side of a sheet: four quarto pages or two folio pages.) Because formes do not have many consecutive pages, estimates would be further broken down by page. If a quarto forme includes a putative page one, for instance, that side of the sheet would also include pages four, five, and eight.

Anagrams

• Frome, e-form, eForm, eform, feorm, frome

Asturian

Verb

forme

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of formar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of formar

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?rm?/, [?f??m?]

Etymology 1

See form (“shape, form”).

Noun

forme c

1. indefinite plural of form

Etymology 2

From form (“shape, form”).

Verb

forme (imperative form, infinitive at forme, present tense former, past tense formede, perfect tense er/har formet)

1. shape
2. clay
3. mould
4. form, frame

French

Etymology

From Old French forme, borrowed from Latin f?rma, possibly cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (morph?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??m/

Noun

forme f (plural formes)

1. shape (geometrical representation)
2. shape (physical appearance)
3. form

Derived terms

Related terms

• difforme
• formel
• former
• formule
  • formulaire
• informe

Further reading

• “forme” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Verb

forme

1. inflection of formen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Italian

Noun

forme f pl

1. plural of forma

Anagrams

• fermo, fermò, fremo

Latin

Adjective

forme

1. vocative masculine singular of formus

Norman

Etymology

From Old French forme, borrowed from Latin forma.

Pronunciation

Noun

forme f (plural formes)

1. (Jersey) form

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse forma

Verb

forme (imperative form, present tense former, passive formes, simple past and past participle forma or formet, present participle formende)

1. to form
2. to shape

Derived terms

• formbar
• omforme

Related terms

• form (noun)

References

• “forme” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• forma

Etymology

From Old Norse forma

Verb

forme (present tense formar, past tense forma, past participle forma, passive infinitive formast, present participle formande, imperative form)

1. to form
2. to shape

Derived terms

• formbar

Related terms

• form (noun)
• -forma

References

• “forme” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Verb

forme

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of formar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of formar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of formar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of formar

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?forme]

Noun

forme f pl

1. plural of form?

Spanish

Verb

forme

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of formar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of formar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of formar.