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Forte, IPAc-en|'|f|?r|t but often IPAc-en|'|f|?r|t|e?;.cite book |last2=Bruchfield |first2=R. W. |last1=Fowler |first1=H.W. |title=Fowler's Modern English Usage |edition=Revised Third |year=2004 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Great Clarendon Street, Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-861021-2 |page=310 A person's strong point e.g. Preparing gourmet cuisine is his forte . The term is derived from the French fort meaning strength, which does not include an acute accent. The latter pronunciation is likely due to a confusion as a false cognate with the musical term below which comes from Italian. For this reason it is sometimes asserted to be incorrect despite having entered common usage, with usage writers recommending the former as more strictly correct. Though the preferred pronunciation does not precisely reflect the French either, where it is pronounced closer to the English word 'for'.cite web |url= http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forte|title= Forte |publisher= Merriam-Webster |accessdate=21 November 2011
Forte (music) , a musical dynamic meaning "loudly" or "strong"
Forte number , an ordering given to every pitch class set
Forte (fencing) , a fencing term for the "strong" part of the blade
Trust House Forte , a British hotel and catering firm
People
Forte/Forté is a surname, notable people with this name include:
Allen Forte (1926-), an American music theorist and musicologist
Anthony Forté, rapper better known as Rappin' 4-Tay
Bruno Forte (1949-), an Italian theologian and ecclesiastic
Charles Forte, Baron Forte (1908–2007), a famous hotelier
Sir Rocco Forte , son of Charles Forte, Baron Forte who inherited the hotel business
John Forté (1975-), a previously-imprisoned musician
Joe Forte , an American writer and painter
Joseph Xavier "Joe" Forte , an American professional basketball player
Matt Forté , an American football player
Will Forte (1970-), Orville Willis "Will" Forte IV, a former cast member of Saturday Night Live
Jonathan Forte (1985-), an English football player, playing for Southampton F.C.
Fictional characters
In some fictional stories, writers choose to use fanciful words such as Forte or Forté as given names or surnames . Characters with such names include:
Forte, the main antagonist of the direct-to-video animated film Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
Bass (Mega Man) , a fictional video game character whose name in Japan is "Forte"
Bass.EXE , a fictional character from the MegaMan NT Warrior series who is based on his video game counterpart. His name in Japan is also "Forte"
Forte Stollen , a fictional character from the Galaxy Angel anime
Technology
FORTE (satellite) , the Fast On-orbit Rapid Recording of Transient Events satellite
Kia Forte , a mid-size sedan
Forte 4GL , a proprietary application server
Forté Agent , an email and news client used on the Windows operating system
Forte TeamWare , a family of development environments from Sun Microsystems
Forté for Java, the former name of the Netbeans IDE.
Manufacturer of photographic film and papers, which went bankrupt in 2007.
Company
Forte Land , a large-scale real estate company in Shanghai, China
Forte Group , a former British hotel company
Forte Design Systems , a high level synthesis software company in San Jose, California
Drum and Bugle Corps
Forte Drum and Bugle Corps , a Drum and Bugle Corps based in Grand Prairie, Texas
See also
Fort
Fortes (disambiguation)
References
disambiguation Category:French words and phrases
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