# forth
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /fɔːθ/
* (General American) IPA: /fɔɹθ/
* (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /fo(ː)ɹθ/
* (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /foəθ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)θ
* Homophone: fourth

### Etymology 1

From Middle English forth, from Old English forþ, from Proto-West Germanic *forþ, from Proto-Germanic *furþą, from Proto-Indo-European *pŕ̥-to-, from *per-. Cognates include Dutch voort and German fort. See also ford.

#### Adverb

forth (not comparable)
* Forward in time, place or degree.
** c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 159:From this time forth, I never will speak word.
** 1709-1725, John Strype, Annals of the Reformation in England:
    say forth
** 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:“ […] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.
* Out into view; from a particular place or position.
    The plants in spring put forth leaves.
    The robbers leapt forth from their place of concealment.
** 1949, Joseph Campbell, “The Hero and the God”, in The Hero with a Thousand Faces:A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: […]
* (obsolete) Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out.
** c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:I have no mind of feasting forth to-night.
** 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros‎, London: Jonathan Cape, page 24:At the clashing of the cymbals the King sprang at Goldry as the panther springeth, and with the rush bare him backward and well nigh forth of the wrastling ground.

##### Synonyms

* fromward

##### Derived terms

* and so forth
* back and forth
* blossom forth
* body forth
* bring forth
* burst forth
* call forth
* come forth
* find forth
* forth-
* forthby
* forth-issuing
* forthwithal
* furthen
* further
* give forth
* go forth
* henceforth
* hold forth
* pour forth
* put forth
* sally forth
* send forth
* set forth
* show forth
* stand forth
* straightforth
* stretch forth
* thenceforth
* turn forth
* whenceforth

##### Translations

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#### Preposition

forth
* (obsolete) Forth from; out of.
** a. 1631, John Donne, The Storme:Some forth their cabins peepe.

### Etymology 2

From fourth; compare forty.

#### Adjective

forth
* Misspelling of fourth.

#### Noun

forth
* Misspelling of fourth.

### Anagrams

* froth

## Old Saxon
### Alternative forms

* forð

### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *furþą, from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥to-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɔrθ/

### Adverb

forth
* forwards, forth; onward

### Preposition

forth
* forward to, up to

#### Descendants

* Middle Low German: fort, vort
** German Low German: foort
** → Danish: fort
** → Norwegian: fort
** → Swedish: fort