força
Meaning
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- (feminine) force; strength
- (feminine) ability to exert influence on others; authority; power
- (feminine) force
- (colloquial,feminine) electricity
- (feminine) series of means used to force someone to do something; violence
- (feminine) strong capacity for action of something; intensity
- (feminine) muscular energy; robustness
- (feminine) spiritual, mental or psychological energy; courage
- (feminine) cause; reason
- (feminine) set of troops, ships, planes or elements of two or more of these combat assets, intended to carry out a policing or combat mission
- (feminine,informal) hernia
Frequency
Hyphenated as
for‧ça
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈfoʁ.sɐ/
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese força, from Late Latin fortia, a noun derived from the neuter plural of Latin fortis (“strong”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“fort”). Compare Galician forza, Spanish fuerza.
New
forçar
to force
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