fortia
Interlingua
Noun
fortia (plural fortias)
- strength
Latin
Alternative forms
- forcia
Etymology
Originally the neuter plural of fortis (“strong, brave”), taken from expressions such as fortia facta 'brave deeds'. Attested in works such as the Formulary of Marculf.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Proto-Italo-Western Romance) IPA(key): /ˈfɔrt͡sʲa/
Noun
fortia f (genitive fortiae); first declension (Late Latin, Medieval Latin)
- force, violence
Derived terms
- *fortiō
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: forza
- → Romanian: forță
- → Serbo-Croatian: forca
- Neapolitan: fuorza
- Sicilian: forza
- Italian: forza
- North Italian: (some possibly via Italian)
- Friulian: fuarce
- Istriot: forsa
- Ladin: forza
- Romansch: forza
- Venetian: forsa
- Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: force, forche; fors
- Middle French: force
- French: force
- → Polish: forsa
- French: force
- Walloon: foice
- → Middle English: force, fors, forse
- English: force
- → Irish: fórsa
- Middle French: force
- Old French: force, forche; fors
- Ibero-Romance:
- Asturian: fuerza
- Old Portuguese: força
- Galician: forza
- Portuguese: força
- Spanish: fuerza
- Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: força
- Old Occitan: forsa
- Occitan: fòrça
Adjective
fortia
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of fortis
References
- fortia 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)
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “fŏrtia”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 3: D–F, page 728
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “fortia”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 447