fortia
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Interlingua
[edit]Noun
[edit]fortia (plural fortias)
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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.[1]
Noun
[edit]fortia f (genitive fortiae); first declension (Early Medieval Latin)
Declension
[edit]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
[edit]- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian: (some possibly via Italian)
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Vulgar Latin:
- *fortiāre (see there for further descendants)
Adjective
[edit]fortia
References
[edit]- 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
- ^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “fortia”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 447