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Definition: Forte |
ForteAdjective1. Used chiefly as a direction or description in music; "the forte passages in the composition". Adverb1. Used as a direction in music; to be played relatively loudly. Noun1. An asset of special worth or utility; "cooking is his forte". 2. (music) with great loudness. 3. The stronger part of a sword blade between the hilt and the foible. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "forte" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In music, forte is an instruction to play loudly (it literally means "strong"). It is usually abbreviated f and is contrasted with piano (quietly, abbreviated to p). See dynamics for more details.In fencing, forte is the part of the blade nearest the hilt, where it is strongest.
In photography, Forte is a manufacturer of paper and film, including the notable Polygrade make of paper.
Charles Forte is a famous hotelier who built a multibillion pound business of the Forte group
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Forte."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
FORTE | English | Fast On-orbit Recording of Transient Events Satellite | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: ForteSynonyms: loud (adj), loudly (adv), fortissimo (n), long suit (n), metier (n), speciality (n), specialty (n), strength (n), strong point (n), strong suit (n). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: piano (adv), weak point (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Penalty | Noun: penalty; retribution; (punishment); pain, pains and penalties; weregild, wergild; peine forte et dure; penance; (atonement); the devil to pay. |
Skill | Cleverness, talent, ability, ingenuity, capacity, parts, talents, faculty, endowment, forte, turn, gift, genius; intelligence; sharpness, readiness; (activity); invention; aptness, turn for, capacity for, genius for; felicity, capability, curiosa felicitas, qualification, habilitation. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Forte |
| English words defined with "forte": foible ♦ loud. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "forte": P., P.P., P.P.P. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "forte": fortuitous. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Forte" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (forcefully, forte), Hungarian (forte), Italian (aloud, big, brawny, deep, Doughty, fast, fastness, forceful, Fort, forte, hard, hardly, heavy, hefty, high, hot, keen, living, loud, loudly, mighty, nervous, nervy, potent, puissant, racy, robust, rugged, severe, short, shrewd, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, tough, vigorous), Latin (accident, accidentally, as luck would have it, bold, brave, by chance, by luck, chance, courageous, firm, fortune, luck, mighty, perchance, perhaps, powerful, steadfast, strong, vigorous), Portuguese (accomplished, acute, bold, bouncing, brawny, cogent, decuman, firm, forceful, forcible, fort, forte, fortress, full-blooded, hale, hard, heavy, hefty, high, high-hearted, intense, intensive, keen, loud, lusty, manly, masculine, masterful, mighty, nappy, penetrating, pithy, potent, presidio, racy, red-blooded, robust, salt, sanguineous, seaworthy, sharp, sinewy, snorting, solid, stalwart, stark, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, substantial, swingeing, telling, tough, two-fisted, unfailing, vehement, venturous, vigorous, wakeless, wholesome), Romanian (forte), Swedish (forte). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Computers are my forte! (Brazil; writing credit: Terry Gilliam; Charles McKeown) | |
Lyrics | Getting paid is a forte (No Diggity; performing artist: Blackstreet) Because harassment's not my forte (Free To Decide; performing artist: The Cranberries) | |
Movie/TV Titles | O Forte (1974) Più forte sorelle (1973) Ragazzi! Più forte (1972) Il Ritorno del gladiatore più forte del mondo (1971) Mais Forte que O Ódio (1970) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The crow quadrilles. Piano forte by John H. Hewitt / N. Currier's lith., N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Drawing room polkas--Arranged for the piano forte / Thayer & Cos. Lith. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | 5 UIL, un sindacato forte per una societa giusto. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Hillclimbing 1" by Margus Kyttä Commentary: "Hillclimbing at Tääksi, Estonia held by MC Forte." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | A mid range trumpet played forte. | | A high tuba note played in a forte manner. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | Nam tunc quamvis forte non ea mente id agit populo plane ut incommodet: tamen quia quod praecipuum est regiae dignitatis amifit, ut summus scilicet in regno secundum Deum sit, & solo Deo inferior, atque populum etiam totum ignorantem vel invitum, cujus libertatem sartam & tectam conservare debuit, in alterius gentis ditionem & potestatem dedidit; hac velut quadam regni ab alienatione effecit, ut nec quod ipse in regno imperium habuit retineat, nec in eum cui collatum voluit, juris quicquam transferat; atque ita eo facto liberum jam & suae potestatis populum relinquit, cujus rei exemplum unum annales Scotici suppeditant. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | Logic had never been her forte. |
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Business | In addition, Roche has a number of well-established vitamin products, which are sold under the names Becosym Forte, Benerva, Berocca and Supradyn. (references) | |
Travel | Colombia | Among well-known hotels located in Bogotá are: (near downtown and the airport) the Tequendama Intercontinental and Forte Capital; (in the north of town) Grand Mercure, Embassy Suites, Victoria Regia, Bogotá Royal, Radisson Royal, Hacienda Royal, La Fontana, Casa Medina, and Casa Dann Carlton. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Forte" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 65.15% of the time. "Forte" is used about 330 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 65.15% | 215 | 20,643 |
| Adverb (general) | 27.27% | 90 | 34,744 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.58% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Total | 100.00% | 330 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "forte" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Forte | Last name | 4,000 | 2,864 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Poland | Fabryki Mebli FORTE SA | USA | Forte Software, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "forte": Aristocort Forte ♦ Eau forte ♦ FML Forte ♦ Norgesic Forte ♦ peine forte et dure ♦ Triam Forte. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "forte": Forte-epice, forte-owned, forte-piano. | |
Ending with "forte": mezzo-forte. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
forte agent | 477 | forte lyrics | 24 |
forte | 316 | forte profen | 22 |
md forte | 266 | rockman forte rom | 22 |
mezzo forte | 124 | joseph forte | 21 |
forte free agent | 98 | agent download forte | 20 |
forte dei marmi | 61 | john forte | 20 |
forte m.d | 55 | fabian forte | 20 |
rockman and forte | 51 | forte hawaii | 17 |
forte lighting | 51 | hep forte | 17 |
pred forte | 47 | chromagen forte | 15 |
forte for java | 46 | n forte | 15 |
robinul forte | 43 | forte hentai mezzo | 14 |
forte hotel | 42 | femme forte | 14 |
parafon forte | 39 | norgesic forte | 14 |
media forte | 38 | joe forte | 13 |
ionamin forte | 35 | forte village | 13 |
praia do forte | 32 | forte dei marmi hotel | 13 |
forte wheels | 28 | phrenilin forte | 13 |
calm forte | 26 | cell forte | 12 |
piano forte | 25 | forte man mega | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "forte"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ton i lartë, pasazh me ton të larta. (various references) | |
Arabic | موطن قوة, الشديد نغم يعزف بقوة, شديد (acute, biting, boisterous, brusque, cordial, crass, dense, excruciating, extreme, intense, intensive, keen, lusty, rigorous, shrill, stern, strong, telling, tempestuous, terrible, vehement, vicious, violent). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сила (definition, drive, dynamism, effect, energy, feck, fiber, fibre, flush, force, forcefulness, goodness, hardness, impetus, intension, intensity, inwardness, kick, lustiness, medium, might, mightiness, muscle, muscularity, nerve, pith, potency, power, prowess, punch, sinews, snap, stamina, strength, stringency, tenacity, thews, tuck, vehemence, verve, vigor, vigour, vim, vinegar, violence, virility, virtue, virulence, vis, volume, zap, zip), форте. (various references) | |
Czech | silná stránka (strongpoint). (various references) | |
French | fort (Fort). (various references) | |
German | stärke (strength, force, starch). (various references) | |
Greek | υπεροχή (dominance, excellence), φόρτε, δυνατά (keenly, mightily, strongly, sturdily). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חזק (strong), נקודה חזקה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | forte, valakinek erõs oldala. (various references) | |
Italian | forte (strong, loudly, aloud), vigoria (forcefulness, strength, thickness). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 特長 (merit), 特長 (merit), フェルミ粒子 (a walk, fall, fault, fault-tolerance, fauvisme, fellowship, fence, fencing, fender, Fermi particle, ferret, ferro-alloy, foam, foam rubber, focus, Fodor, fog, fog lamp, fog light, foie gras, folder, folk, folk art, folk dance, folk song, folklore, follow, follow wind, follow-through, followup, follow-up, fondue, font, force, force-out, ford, fore, forecast, foreground, forehand, foreman, forge, fork, fork ball, forklift, forklore, form, formal, formal dress, formal wear, formalism, format, formation, formatter, formatting, form-feed, formula car, formula plan, formula translation, FORTRAN, fortune, forum, forward, forward pass, forwarding, fossa magna, foster child, foster parent, four nines, fox-trot, Fuji, Fuji-TV, pheromone, phone, phonograph, photo, photo library, photo realism, photo story, photo studio, photochromic glass, photocoupler, photodiode, photogenic, photogenie, photograph, photographer, photography, photogravure, photoresist, phototransistor, Volkswagen, VW), 得手 (strong point), 強み . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | フォルテ , つよみ (strong point), とくちょう (characteristic, feature, merit), えて (strong point). (various references) | |
Manx | schlei (ability, adroitness, art, attainment, flair, know-how, skill, talent, virtuosity), lajer (able-bodied, cogent, forcible, hard, heady, heavy, lusty, potent, powerful, pronounced, rich, sound, stark, stout, strong), dy lajer (hard, strong). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ortefay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | forte (intense, sturdy), o ponto forte. (various references) | |
Romanian | forte. (various references) | |
Russian | форте. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | jaka tačka. (various references) | |
Spanish | fuerte (strong, robust, solid, sturdy, firm), almidon (strength, thickness). (various references) | |
Swedish | forte, stark sida. (various references) | |
Turkish | sesli (noisy, out loud, sonant, sounding, vocal, vociferous, voiced, vowel), kuvetle, kişinin en güçlü tarafı, en iyi yaptığı şey. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | форте. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sở trường (excellence), đoạn chơi mạnh. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| French | 1500-Modern | fort. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 22, Verse 25 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Mhpote maqhV twn odwn autou kai labhV brocouV th sh yuch |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Ne forte discas semitas eius et sumas scandalum animae tuae |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Lest parauenture thou lerne the pathis of hym, and take sclaunder to thi soule. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For fear of learning his ways and making a net ready for your soul. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 22, Verse 25 |
| Cebuano | Tingali unya ikaw makakat-on sa iyang mga dalan, Ug makabaton ka sa lit-ag sa imong kalag. |
| Croatian | da se ne bi privikao na staze njegove i namjestio zamku duši svojoj. |
| Danish | at du ikke skal lære hans Stier og hente en Snare for din Sjæl. |
| Dutch | Opdat gij zijn paden niet leert, en een strik over uw ziel haalt. |
| Finnish | että et tottuisi hänen teihinsä ja saattaisi sieluasi ansaan. |
| French | De peur que tu ne t`habitues à ses sentiers, Et qu`ils ne deviennent un piège pour ton âme. |
| German | du möchtest seinen Weg lernen und an deiner Seele Schaden nehmen. |
| Haitian Creole | W'a pran move mès yo. W'a rale malè sou ou. |
| Hungarian | Hogy el ne tanuld az õ útait, és tõrt ne keress tennen magadnak. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Nanti engkau akan meniru dia, dan tidak bisa lagi menghilangkan kebiasaan itu. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | supaya jangan engkau belajar tingkah lakunya serta memasang jerat akan jiwamu. |
| Italian | per non imparare i suoi costumi e procurarti una trappola per la tua vita. |
| Maori | Kei akona e koe ona ara, a ka riro i a koe he mahanga mo tou wairua. |
| Norwegian | forat du ikke skal lære dig til å gå på hans veier og få satt en snare for ditt liv! |
| Portuguese | para que não aprendas as suas veredas, e tomes um laço para a tua alma. |
| Rumanian | ca nu cumva sq te deprinzi cu cqrqrile lui, wi sq-yi ajungq o cursq pentru suflet. - |
| Russian | ЮФПВЩ ОЕ ОБХЮЙФШУС РХФСН ЕЗП Й ОЕ ОБЧМЕЮШ РЕФМЙ ОБ ДХЫХ ФЧПА. |
| Spanish | no sea que aprendas sus maneras y pongas una trampa para tu propia vida. |
| Swedish | på det att du icke må lära dig hans vägar och bereda en snara för ditt liv. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "forte": fortepiano, fortepianos, fortes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "forte": pianoforte. (additional references) | |
Words containing "forte": comforted, comforter, comforters, discomforted, pianofortes. (additional references) | |
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"Forte" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: farte, fartel, fartlek, Ferteh, Fioretti, Fiorita, Fiorito, Firetex, Foart, Fojtik, fonte, fontem, foote, footee, forbe, Forchaz, Forcheim, forde, Fordel, fordie, foree, forep, foret, forety, forex, forit, forje, formee, forre, forse, Forshey, forste, forta, Fortar, fortaz, fortee, fortei, fortel, Forter, fortez, fortezza, forthe, Forthey, Forti, fortie, fortn, Fortney, forto, Fortrey, fortu, Fortye, forve, forye, Fote, Fotev, fourte, fourtee, fourtie, Fourtou, Fouta, foutez, Foxtech, froat, frotw, Fuerte, furet, furte, Furter, Furtok, futrex, horte, morte, ofrten. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "forte" (pronounced fô"rtā or fô"rt) |
| 4 | f ô" r t | Fort. |
| 3 | -ô" r t | abort, assort, athwart, boart, bort, cavort, comport, consort, contort, court, import, deport, distort, escort, exhort, extort, misreport, Mort, ort, port, quart, report, resort, short, snort, sort, sport, support, Swart, teleport, thwart, tort, torte, transport, underreport, wart. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: fetor, ofter. | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: fore, fort, fret, froe, reft, rote, tore, tref. | |
-2 letters: eft, fer, fet, foe, for, fro, oft, ore, ort, ref, ret, roe, rot, toe, tor. | |
-3 letters: ef, er, et, oe, of, or, re, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: effort, fetors, floret, foetor, footer, forest, forget, fortes, foster, lofter, softer, twofer. | |
+2 letters: coffret, crofter, defrost, efforts, fagoter, felwort, firepot, floater, florets, flouter, foetors, footers, footier, footler, foregut, forests, foretop, forfeit, forgets, formate, forties, fortune, forwent, fosters, fronted, fronter, frontes, frosted, frothed, lofters, loftier, oftener, outfire, overfat, piefort, pomfret, poofter, refloat, refront, rotifer, telford, thereof, torrefy, trefoil, troffer, twofers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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