Noun: força
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | força |
| Plural f | forças |
Sample Sentences
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Hermione beliscou o braço do amigo com força. (Hermione pinched her friend's arm with force.) [2005, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 100:]
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força policial (police force)
Nouns inflected like força
palestra,
indumentária,
metafísica,
histerectomia,
cumplicidade,
serifa,
sestra,
secura,
semana,
estrebaria,
estreiteza,
savana,
saroba,
sapata,
safena,
safira,
militança,
sacada,
sacola,
sanita, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: Latin Nouns '
fortis', Galician Nouns '
forza', Spanish Nouns '
fuerza'.
Verbs referencing "força"
Spanish Nouns
fuerza.
Translations