adverb
forsit
forsit (not comparable)
Classical[ˈfɔr.sɪt]Ecclesiastical[ˈfɔr.sit]
Meaning
- not comparableperhaps
forsit, adv. contr. from fors sit; cf. fors, II. A.,
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
forsit adv.
for fors sit, perhaps , H.
Origins
From ellipsis of fors (“chance”) + sit (“be”, subjunctive).
Insular Romance
- Sardinianforcis
- Sardinianforsis
- Sardinianfortzis
- Sardinianfossis
- Sardinianfrotzis
Italo-Dalmatian
- Italianforse
- Corsicanforse
- Istriotfuorsi
- Neapolitanforze
- Sicilianforsi
- Sicilianfraci
Rhaeto-Romance
- Friulianforsit
- Ladinforsi
- Ladinforsci
- Ladinforsc
- Ladinfosc
- Romanshforsa
- Romanshforza