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fort
fort (a fortified military structure) /fort/
noun#3161 most common
Also: fortress, stronghold
Example sentences
Orașul are un fort vechi.
The city has an old fort.
Am vizitat fortul de pe deal.
We visited the fort on the hill.
Soldații au apărat fortul timp de trei zile.
The soldiers defended the fort for three days.
Fortul a fost construit în secolul al XIX-lea pentru a apăra portul.
The fort was built in the 19th century to defend the port.
Ruinele forturilor de coastă atrag mulți turiști în fiecare vară.
The ruins of the coastal forts attract many tourists every summer.
Deși forturile fuseseră abandonate de decenii, arhitectura lor impunătoare încă domină linia orizontului.
Although the forts had been abandoned for decades, their imposing architecture still dominates the skyline.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | fort | forturi |
| Genitive | fortului | forturilor |
| Accusative | fort | forturi |
| Vocative | fort | forturi |
Word family
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "fort" from French "fort" in the 19th century, as part of a broad wave of French and Latin-based vocabulary that modernized the language. French "fort" itself comes from Latin "fortis", meaning strong. The Romanian noun narrowed the sense from "strong" to "a strong, fortified place". The exact deeper origin of Latin "fortis" is disputed among historical linguists, so no single ancestral root is given here.
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