Definitions for fortis

fortis for·tis

Spelling: [fawr-tis]
IPA: /ˈfɔr tɪs/

Fortis is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 118 anagrams from letters in fortis (fiorst).

Definitions for fortis

noun

  1. a fortis consonant.

adjective

  1. pronounced with considerable muscular tension and breath pressure, resulting in a strong fricative or explosive sound. In stressed position (p, t, k, ch, f, th, s, sh) and sometimes (h) are fortis in English as compared with (b, d, g, j, v, th̸, z, and zh), which are lenis. Compare lenis.

Origin of fortis

1905-10; Latin: strong, powerful, firm

Examples for fortis

fortis sub forte fatiscet—A brave man will yield to a brave.

I further take Blank and Blanchard (hard, fortis) to be a nasalised form of the above, and to have the same meaning.

fortis inferred that twenty-five new species only were created at a time; a construction which the passage will not admit.

He showed the little there was to be seen with care and courtesy—no doubt "pius miles, fortis sacerdos."

fortis cadere, cedere non potest—A brave man may fall, but cannot yield.

I have examined types or co-types in all cases except that of Ephydatia fortis, Weltner.

As long as fortis Etruria crevit, Fsul must always have held its own as a frontier post against the Ligurian foe.

But when fortis Etruria began to decline, and Rome to become the summit of all things, the glory of Fsul received a severe shock.

Thus upon a solution of Tin by Aqua fortis, there will ensue a coagulation, like that of whites of Eggs.

In March 1905, feeling himself no longer secure, he resigned, indicating fortis as his successor.

Word Value for fortis
Scrable

9

Words with friends

9

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