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fortite

fortite verb: to fortify; to undergo, or cause to undergo, fortition.

Verb

fortite (third-person singular simple present fortites, present participle fortiting, simple past and past participle fortited)

  1. (uncommon) To fortify; to undergo, or cause to undergo, fortition.
    • Fortited sound /t/ /k/
      If a verb root beginning with /d/ or /g/ is reduplicated, the initial sound in the base form of the verb is fortited. For example , the verb root /gita/ 'look at' is reduplicated to the left[…]2010, Cynthia Schneider, A Grammar of Abma: A Language of Pentecost Island, Vanuatu
    • It is very striking that natives of this archipelago, Scandinavian-speaking well into the modern era, should have developed */xw/ in a similar fortited way to their Faeroese and Norwegian neighbours.2023 May 18, Robert McColl Millar, R L Trask, Trask's Historical Linguistics, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN

Forms of fortite

third-person singular presentfortites
present participlefortiting
past participlefortited
pastfortited

Origin of fortite

Back-formed from fortition? Compare lenite, lenition.

Questions about fortite

What does fortite mean?
Fortite means to fortify; to undergo, or cause to undergo, fortition.
What part of speech is fortite?
Fortite is a verb.
What is the past tense of fortite?
The past tense of fortite is fortited.

Words near fortite in the dictionary

  1. fortissimo
  2. fortissimos
  3. fortississimi
  4. fortississimo
  5. fortississimos
  6. fortite
  7. fortited
  8. fortites
  9. fortiting
  10. fortition
  11. fortitions

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