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From Old Galician-Portuguese força (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin fortia, a noun derived from the neuter plural of Latin fortis (“strong”).

• força (reintegrationist)

• Hyphenation: for‧za

forza f (plural forzas)

1. force
2. strength; vigor
3. violence
4. coercion

• por forza

• força
• forçar
• forte
• forzar

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “força”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “forza”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “forza”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “forza”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “forza”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

forza

1. inflection of forzar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔr.t͡sa/^[1]

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• Rhymes: -ɔrtsa
• Hyphenation: fòr‧za

From Late Latin fortia, a noun derived from the neuter plural of Latin fortis (“strong”).

forza f (plural forze)

1. force
2. strength

   con tutte le forze ― with every fiber of one's being (literally, “with all the strengths”)

• → Albanian: forcë
• →? Ladin: forza
• → Romanian: forță
• →? Romansh: forza
• → Serbo-Croatian: forca

forza

1. cheer up!
2. come on!
3. hurry up!
4. get a move on, get moving!

   Synonym: sbrigati

forza

1. inflection of forzare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• forza in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From Late Latin fortia, a noun derived from the neuter plural of Latin fortis (“strong”). Possibly borrowed via Italian forza.

forza f (plural forzes)

1. force