fortia

Interlingua

Noun

fortia (plural fortias)

1. strength

Latin

Alternative forms

• forcia

Etymology

Originally the neuter plural of fortis (“strong, brave”), taken from expressions such as fortia facta 'brave deeds'. Attested in works such as the Formulary of Marculf.

Noun

fortia f (genitive fortiae); first declension (Early Medieval Latin)

1. force, violence

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fortia	fortiae
Genitive	fortiae	fortiārum
Dative	fortiae	fortiīs
Accusative	fortiam	fortiās
Ablative	fortiā	fortiīs
Vocative	fortia	fortiae

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: forza
    • → Romanian: forță
    • → Serbo-Croatian: forca
  • Neapolitan: fuorza
  • Sicilian: forza
• North Italian: (some possibly via Italian)
  • Friulian: fuarce
  • Istriot: forsa
  • Ladin: forza
  • Romansch: forza
  • Venetian: forsa
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: força
  • Old French: force, forche (northern); fors
    • Middle French: force
      • French: force
        • → Polish: forsa
        • → Azerbaijani: fors
    • Walloon: foice
    • → Middle English: force, fors, forse
      • English: force
      • → Irish: fórsa
  • Old Occitan: forsa, forssa, forza
    • Occitan: fòrça
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: fuerza
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: força
    • Galician: forza
    • Portuguese: força
  • Spanish: fuerza
• Vulgar Latin:
  • *fortiāre (see there for further descendants)

Adjective

fortia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of fortis

References

• fortia 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)
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “fŏrtia”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 728