strong; powerful · (informal) skilled, proficient, successful, sometimes translated "good" (often used in reference to academic subjects) · who can count on
çekim: çoğul forts
eş: ferme, grand, gros, robuste
zıt: faible
köken: Inherited from Old French fort, from Latin fortem (“strong”), from Old Latin forctis, fortis.
aile: à plus forte raison, au prix fort, c'est plus fort que moi, employer la manière forte, esprit fort, faire fort, fort comme un bœuf, fort comme un Turc, fort de café, haut et fort
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese forte, from Latin fortis (“strong”), from Old Latin forctis, fortis, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“to rise, high, hill”).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *megʰ-der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *magtis Proto-Slavic *mȍťь Old Polish moc Polish moc Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Balto-Slavic *-inas Proto-Slavic *-ьnъ Old Polish -ny Polish -ny Polish mocny From moc + -ny.
köken: Inherited from Latin tālem, accusative of tālis. The sense of "distinguished" or "so great / excellent" in Latin probably eventually became "strong" in earlier Romanian, finally taking on the more literal meaning of "hard" or "tough". Compare also atare.
aile: întări
Pâinea este foarte tare.
Dar nu vreau să fie iarna când mi-l cumpără pentru că trebuie să aștept prea mult să îl scot din casă. Are remorcă! E super tare!
strong (capable of producing great physical force) · strong (capable of withstanding great physical force) · strong (having a high concentration of an essential or active ingredient)
çekim: karşılaştırma erősebb · üstünlük legerősebb
zıt: gyenge
köken: erő (“power, force”) + -s (adjective-forming suffix)
strong (person, animal with great strength, who is physically well developed) · strong (big, well developed) · strong, firm, hard, well developed, not weak, not brittle
çekim: karşılaştırma stiprāks · üstünlük visstiprākais
eş: spēcīgs
zıt: vājš, jēls, švaks
köken: Derived from the verb stipt (“to become rigid, to harden”), from the same stem as stiept (“to stretch”) (q.v.); the (adjectivizing?) r (< *-ro) follows the pattern of stingt (“to harden, to stiffen”), stingrs (“firm, strong, strict”). Cognates include Lithuanian stiprùs, dialectal sti̇̀pras, Old Prussian postippin (“all”) (acc.), postippan (“all, entirely, completely”).
köken: Common Romance, ultimately from Latin fortis. Compare French fort, Portuguese and Italian forte, Spanish fuerte, Romanian foarte, English force, forte (“strength or talent”, noun).