FORTEとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈfɔːteɪ/, /fɔːˈteɪ/, /ˈfɔːti/, /fɔːt/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈfoɹ.teɪ/, /ˈfoɹti/, /foɹt/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)teɪ, -eɪ, -ɔː(ɹ)ti, -ɔː(ɹ)t
• (non-hoarse-horse) IPA: (rhotic) /ˈfoːɹt/, (non-rhotic) /ˈfoət/

名詞

forte (plural fortes)

1. A strength or talent; a strong point.

   He writes respectably, but poetry is not his forte.

   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], 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.

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

同意語

• See Thesaurus:forte

語源 2

Borrowed from Italian forte (“strong”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈfɔːteɪ/
• IPA: (General American) /ˈfoɹteɪ/
• (non-hoarse-horse) IPA: (rhotic) /ˈfoːɹteɪ/, (non-rhotic) /ˈfoəteɪ/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)teɪ

副詞

forte (comparative more forte, superlative most forte)

1. (music) Loudly, as a dynamic in a piece of music.

   (abbreviation) f

   The musicians played the passage forte.

関連する語

• fortepiano
• fortissimo
• fortississimo
• mezzo forte
• pianoforte

形容詞

forte (comparative more forte, superlative most forte)

1. (music) Loud.

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

名詞

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.

関連する語

参考

• piano

参照

アナグラム

• Foret, fetor, frote, ofter

語源 1

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

名詞

forte

1. ablative singular of fors

副詞

fortĕ (not comparable)

1. by chance, accidentally

   Synonym: fortuītō

   • 160 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Adelphoe 739–741:

     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 [the number] most needed does not fall by a throw, instead you must artfully make the best of the one that fell by chance.

2. once, once upon a time
3. perhaps, perchance

   Synonyms: forsit, forsitan, fortāsse, fortāssis

4. as luck would have it

   Synonym: temere

5. as it (just so) happens/happened

関連する語

語源 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

形容詞

forte

1. nominative/vocative/accusative singular neuter of fortis

参照

• “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, 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