forte
/fɔːt/ · noun
Meaning
- A strength or talent.
- The strong part of a sword blade, close to the hilt.
- A passage in music to be played loudly; a loud section of 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.)
- Loudly.
Etymology / origin
No prose etymology has been added yet.
No ancestor words have been linked yet.
Related words
Descendant words
No descendant words have been linked yet.