forteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔːteɪ/, /ˈfɔːti/, /fɔːt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfoɹ.teɪ/, /ˈfoɹti/, /foɹt/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
• (without the horse–hoarse merger)IPA^(key): /ˈfoːɹt/^[2][1] or IPA^(key): /ˈfɔː(ɹ)t/^[3]

名詞

forte (複数形 fortes)

1. A strength or talent.

   He writes respectably, but poetry is not his forte.

   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 21345056, 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”).^[1]

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔː.teɪ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfoɹ.teɪ/^[1]
• (without the horse–hoarse merger)IPA^(key): /ˈfoːɹ.teɪ/^[4] or IPA^(key): /ˈfɔː(ɹ).teɪ/^[5][1]

形容詞

forte (not comparable)

1. (music) Loud. Used as a dynamic directive in sheet music in its abbreviated form, "f.", to indicate raising the volume of the music. (Abbreviated in musical notation with an f, the Unicode character 1D191.)

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

副詞

forte (not comparable)

1. (music) Loudly.

   The musicians played the passage forte.

関連する語

• fortepiano
• fortissimo
• fortississimo
• mezzo forte
• pianoforte

名詞

forte (複数形 fortes)

1. A passage in music to be played loudly; a loud section of music.

   This forte marks the climax of the second movement.

参考

• piano

関連する語

参照

アナグラム

• Foret, fetor, frote, ofter

Latin

語源 1

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

名詞

forte

1. ablative singular of fors

副詞

forte (not comparable)

1. by chance, accidentally

   Synonym: temere

2. once, once upon a time
3. perhaps, perchance
4. as luck would have it
5. as it (just so) happens/happened

同意語

• (by chance): fortuītō
• (perhaps): forsit, forsitan, fortasse, fortassis

関連する語

語源 2

From fortis.

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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ 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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) quite accidentally, fortuitously: temere et fortuito; forte (et) temere