forth

See also: Forth, forþ, forð, forth-, forð-, and forþ-

English

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forth

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fɔːθ/
(General American) IPA^(key): /fɔɹθ/
(rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /fo(ː)ɹθ/
(non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /foəθ/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)θ
Homophone: fourth

Etymology 1

From Middle English forth, from Old English forþ, from Proto-West Germanic *forþ, from Proto-Germanic *furþą, from Proto-Indo-European *pŕ̥-to-, from *per-. Cognates include Dutch voort and German fort. See also ford.

Adverb

forth (not comparable)

Forward in time, place or degree.
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 159:
  From this time forth, I never will speak word.
- 1709-1725, John Strype, Annals of the Reformation in England:
  say forth
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
  “ […] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.
Out into view; from a particular place or position.
The plants in spring put forth leaves.

The robbers leapt forth from their place of concealment.
- 1949, Joseph Campbell, “The Hero and the God”, in The Hero with a Thousand Faces:
  A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: […]
(obsolete) Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out.
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:
  I have no mind of feasting forth to-night.
- 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros‎^[1], London: Jonathan Cape, page 24:
  At the clashing of the cymbals the King sprang at Goldry as the panther springeth, and with the rush bare him backward and well nigh forth of the wrastling ground.

Synonyms

fromward

Derived terms

Translations

forward in time, place or degree

Bulgarian: напред (bg) (napred), нататък (natatǎk)
Catalan: envant
Dutch: voort (nl), voorwaarts (nl)
Esperanto: antaŭen
Finnish: eteenpäin (fi)
Georgian: წინ (c̣in)
Polish: naprzód (pl)
Russian: вперёд (ru) (vperjód), впредь (ru) (vpredʹ)
Ukrainian: впере́д (vperéd), да́лі (dáli)

out into view

Bulgarian: на показ (na pokaz)
Dutch: voort (nl), tevoorschijn (nl)
Finnish: esiin (fi)

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Translations to be checked

West Frisian: ^{(please verify)} fuort

Preposition

forth

(obsolete) Forth from; out of.
- a. 1631, John Donne, The Storme:
  Some forth their cabins peepe.

Etymology 2

From fourth; compare forty.

Adjective

forth

Misspelling of fourth.

Noun

forth

Misspelling of fourth.

Anagrams

froth

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

forð

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *furþą, from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥to-.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fɔrθ/

Adverb

forth

forwards, forth; onward

Preposition

forth

forward to, up to

Descendants

Middle Low German: fort, vort
- German Low German: foort
- → Danish: fort
- → Norwegian: fort
- → Swedish: fort