fore
English edit
Etymology edit
A development of the prefix fore-.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fɔː/
- (General American) IPA(key): /fɔɹ/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /fo(ː)ɹ/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /foə/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
- Homophones: four, for (in accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
Adjective edit
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 […]
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Interjection edit
fore
- (golf) An exclamation yelled to inform players a ball is moving in their direction.
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Noun edit
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.
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Adverb edit
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
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Cornish edit
Noun edit
fore
- Mixed mutation of bore.
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fore
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Audio (file)
Verb edit
fore
- inflection of forer:
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fore
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Preposition edit
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][1], 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 valore- The 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
- out, outside, outwards (towards the outside)
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfo.re/, [ˈfɔrɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfo.re/, [ˈfɔːre]
Etymology 1 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun edit
fore
Etymology 2 edit
Formally present active infinitive corresponding to fuī (“I have been”), irregular perfect indicative of sum (“I am”). 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".
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Verb edit
fore
Usage notes edit
- 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 edit
- “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 edit
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fore
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fore
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology 1 edit
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- fóre
Noun edit
fore f (definite singular fora, indefinite plural forer, definite plural forene)
Etymology 2 edit
Derived from for (“travel”), from Old Norse fǫr, but made a weak noun. From earlier Proto-Germanic *farō.
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- fòre
Noun edit
fore f (definite singular fora, indefinite plural forer, definite plural forene)
- alternative form of for
Etymology 3 edit
From fòr (“furrow”).
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Verb edit
fore (present tense forar, past tense fora, past participle fora, passive infinitive forast, present participle forande, imperative fore/for)
- to furrow
Etymology 4 edit
Inherited from Old Norse fóðra.
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Verb edit
fore (present tense forar, past tense fora, past participle fora, passive infinitive forast, present participle forande, imperative fore/for)
Related terms edit
- fôr n (“fodder”)
Etymology 5 edit
Made from fôr (“lining of clothes”)
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Verb edit
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 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective edit
fore
References edit
- “fore” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish edit
Verb edit
fore
- (dated) past subjunctive of fara
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Welsh edit
Pronunciation edit
- (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA(key): /ˈvɔrɛ/
- (North Wales, colloquial) IPA(key): /ˈvɔra/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈvoːrɛ/, /ˈvɔrɛ/
Noun edit
fore
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
bore | fore | more | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |