# fore
## English
### Etymology

A development of the prefix fore-.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /fɔː/
* (General American) IPA: /foɹ/
* (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /fo(ː)ɹ/
* (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /foə/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
* Homophones: four; for (horse–hoarse merger)

### Adjective

fore (comparative former, superlative foremost)
* (obsolete) Former; occurring earlier (in some order); previous. [15th–18th c.]
    the fore part of the day
* Forward; situated towards the front (of something). [from 16th c.]
** 1921, The Photographic Journal, page 8:The fore end of the tape is drawn out, and when the indicator points to this number the end is firmly fixed to the front of the camera.
** 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 23:Crystal vases with crimson roses and golden-brown asters were set here and there in the fore part of the shop […]

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “order”): latter
* (antonym(s) of “location”): aft

#### Translations
### Interjection

fore
* (golf) An exclamation yelled to inform players a ball is moving in their direction.

#### Translations
### Noun

fore (uncountable)
* The front; the forward part of something; the foreground.
** 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:The waiting-room was now less empty than Watt had at first supposed, to judge by the presence, some two paces to Watt's fore, and as many to his right, of what seemed to be an object of some importance.
** 2002, Mark Bevir, The Logic of the History of Ideas:People face a dilemma whenever they bring to the fore an understanding that appears inadequate in the light of the other beliefs they bring to bear on it.

#### Translations
### Adverb

fore (not comparable)
* In the part that precedes or goes first; opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.
* (obsolete) Formerly; previously; afore.
** 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 7”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:The eyes, fore duteous, now converted are.
* (nautical) In or towards the bows of a ship.
    Antonym: aft

### Derived terms

* back and fore
* first
* fore-and-aft
* fore and aft
* fore-and-aft cap
* fore-and-after
* fore and aft rig
* fore-and-aft-rigged
* foreanent
* fore arm
* forecheck
* foredraft
* fore edge
* forehatch
* forehead
* foreline
* foremast
* foremost
* forereef
* foreright
* foreshore
* foreward
* fore wing
* to the fore
* wherefor
* whithertofore

### Anagrams

* Ofer, OFer, froe, o-fer, ofer, Freo, Fero, orfe

## Cornish
### Noun

fore
* Mixed mutation of bore.

## Esperanto
### Etymology

for +‎ -e

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfore]
* Rhymes: -ore
* Hyphenation: fo‧re

### Adverb

fore
* far away

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

fore
* inflection of forer:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

## Ido
### Etymology

for +‎ -e

### Adverb

fore
* (far) away, afar

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɔ.re/
* Rhymes: -ɔre
* Hyphenation: fò‧re

### Preposition

fore
* (archaic, literary) Alternative form of fuori
** out, outside, outwards (towards the outside)
*** late 13th century, Guido Guinizelli, Al cor gentil rempaira sempre amore [Love always dwells in the noble heart]‎, lines 11–12, 15–17; republished in Gianfranco Contini, editor, Poeti italiani del Duecento, volume 2, Milan, Naples: Riccardo Ricciardi, 1960:Foco d’amore in gentil cor s’aprende come vertute in petra prezïosa, […] poi che n’ha tratto fòre per sua forza lo sol ciò che li è vile, stella li dà valoreThe flame of love seizes the noble heart like virtue [does] a gem, […] after the Sun has brought out of it, through its might, what of it is lowly; a star gives it value

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈfo.re/, [ˈfɔrɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈfo.re/, [ˈfɔːre]

### Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

fore
* ablative singular of foris

### Etymology 2

Formally present active infinitive corresponding to fuī (“I have been”), irregular perfect indicative of sum (“I am”). From Proto-Italic *fuiezi (s-derivative verbal noun of *fuiō), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become, be”), cognate with Old English bēo (“I become, I will be, I am”). In classical Latin, the fu- forms of sum are mostly limited to the perfect tenses, but old Latin has alternate present and imperfect subjunctive forms fuam and forem (for classical sim and essem) suggesting the root could once be fully conjugated. After being incorporated in the conjugation of sum, the meaning of fore shifted from the original "to become" to the classical "to be going to be".

#### Alternative forms

* futūrus esse

#### Verb

fore
* future active infinitive of sum

##### Usage notes

* Also used in the construction fore ut in place of a future passive infinitive in indirect discourse:
    Crēdō fore ut ea laudētur.I believe it would be that she will be praised.(literally, “I believe it to be going to be that she is praised.”)

### References

* “fore”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “fore”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "fore", 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)
* fore in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Middle English
### Noun

fore
* fore

#### Descendants

* Scots: fore
* English: fore

### Numeral

fore
* four

### Conjunction

fore
* therefore

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1
#### Alternative forms

* fóre

#### Noun

fore f (definite singular fora, indefinite plural forer, definite plural forene)
* behaviour
* footprints, tracks
* (economics) ability, standing

### Etymology 2

Derived from for (“travel”), from Old Norse fǫr, but made a weak noun. From earlier Proto-Germanic *farō.

#### Alternative forms

* fòre

#### Noun

fore f (definite singular fora, indefinite plural forer, definite plural forene)
* alternative form of for

### Etymology 3

From fòr (“furrow”).

#### Alternative forms

* fora, fòra, fòre

#### Verb

fore (present tense forar, past tense fora, past participle fora, passive infinitive forast, present participle forande, imperative fore/for)
* to furrow

### Etymology 4

Inherited from Old Norse fóðra.

#### Alternative forms

* fora, fôra, fôre

#### Verb

fore (present tense forar, past tense fora, past participle fora, passive infinitive forast, present participle forande, imperative fore/for)
* to fodder animals
** to breed, raise
* to gather food, fodder
* to feed

##### Related terms

* fôr n (“fodder”)

### Etymology 5

Made from fôr (“lining of clothes”)

#### Alternative forms

* fora, fôra, fôre

#### Verb

fore (present tense forar, past tense fora, past participle fora, passive infinitive forast, present participle forande, imperative fore/for)
* (transitive) to line (clothes)
* (transitive) to clad with covering layers

### Etymology 6

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

fore
* inflection of for:
** definite singular
** plural

### References

* “fore” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old English
### Verb

fōre
* second-person singular preterite indicative of faran

## Swedish
### Verb

fore
* (dated) past subjunctive of fara

### Anagrams

* efor

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA: /ˈvɔrɛ/
** (North Wales, colloquial) IPA: /ˈvɔra/
* (South Wales) IPA: /ˈvoːrɛ/, /ˈvɔrɛ/

### Noun

fore
* Soft mutation of bore (“morning”).

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.