# fors
## English
### Noun

fors pl (plural only)
* Only used in fors and againsts

### Anagrams

* SFor, Orfs, sORF, SOFR, orfs, 'fros, ORFs, fros

## Catalan
### Noun

fors
* plural of for

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔrs

### Adjective

fors (comparative forser, superlative meest fors or forst)
* stout, large
* substantial, considerable

#### Declension
### Adverb

fors
* strongly

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

fors
* plural of for

### Preposition

fors
* except, save
    Tout est perdu fors l’honneur.All is lost save honour.

### Further reading

* “fors”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈfors/, [ˈfɔrs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈfors/, [ˈfɔrs]

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *fortis, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰértis (“the act of carrying”) (compare Old Irish brith, German Geburt, English bear, burden, Russian бремя (bremja, “burden”), брать (bratʹ, “to take”), Sanskrit भृति (bhṛti, “carrying”)), derivative of *bʰer-, whence also Latin ferō (“bring, carry”). For the semantic development, compare Proto-Germanic *buriz (“favorable wind”), from the same root.

#### Noun

fors f (genitive fortis); third declension
* luck, chance
** 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.507:fors suā cuique locō estLuck: And each place has its own. (Ovid tells what happens when Ceres (mythology) visits a family living at a site later known as Eleusis. Although ‘‘fors’’ is sometimes translated as ‘‘destiny,’’ which may imply determination, Ovid's probable meaning is that of random chance; idiomatically, ‘‘good luck.’’)

##### Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

##### Related terms

* forsan
* forsit
* forsitan
* fortasse
* fortassis
* forte
* fortuītō
* fortuītus
* fortūna

### Etymology 2

From contraction of fors sit (“it might happen”).

#### Alternative forms

* forsit
* fors sit

#### Adverb

fors (not comparable)
* perhaps, perchance

### References

* “fors”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “fors”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “fors”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
* "fors", 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)
* fors 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 (ambiguous) to be brave by nature: animo forti esse (ambiguous) personally brave: manu fortis
* fors in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

## Middle French
### Alternative forms

* hors

### Etymology

From Old French fors, from Latin foris.

### Preposition

fors
* apart from

## Old French
### Etymology

From Latin foris.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɔɾs/

### Adverb

fors
* outside

### Preposition

fors
* outside
* apart from
** c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:Et je reconois et otroi Que nus n'i a coupes fors moiAnd I recognize and admit That nobody is responsible apart from me

#### Related terms

* çafors
* defors

#### Descendants

* Middle French: fors
** French: hors (or from defors)

## Old Norse
### Alternative forms

* foss

### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fursaz, from Pre-Germanic *pŕ̥sos, from Proto-Indo-European *pers- (“to spray, splash”).

### Noun

fors m (genitive fors, plural forsar)
* a waterfall

#### Descendants

* Icelandic: fors, foss
** → English: foss
* Faroese: fossur
* Norn: fors
* Norwegian: foss, fors
** → Danish: fos, >? fors
*** Norwegian Bokmål: foss
* Old Swedish: fors
** Swedish: fors
* Middle Danish: fors
** >? Danish: fors (influenced by Norwegian)
* → Middle English: fors, force
** English: force (in the sense of a waterfall) (Northern England)
* → Middle Low German: vorsch

### Further reading

* “fors”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “fors”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “fors”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
* "fors", 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)
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. (ambiguous) quite accidentally, fortuitously: temere et fortuito; forte (et) temere (ambiguous) to be brave by nature: animo forti esse (ambiguous) personally brave: manu fortis
* fors in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

## Old Swedish
### Alternative forms

* ᚠᚮᚱᛋ

### Etymology

From Old Norse fors, from Proto-Germanic *fursaz.

### Noun

fors m
* torrent, stream
* waterfall

#### Descendants

* Swedish: fors

## Portuguese
### Noun

fors
* plural of for

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Swedish fors, from Old Norse fors, from Proto-Germanic *fursaz.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɔʂː/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

fors c
* a rapids, white water
* a chute (in a river)

#### Related terms

* forsa

## Walloon
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɔʀ/

### Noun

fors
* plural of for