forte

forte is a Latin form of fors, meaning “chance, luck”. It is the ablative singular feminine noun or adverb.

Found 1,520 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 2.31.4: Unum petere ac deprecari: si forte pro sua clementia ac mansuetudine, quam ipsi ab aliis audirent, statuisset Atuatucos esse conservandos, ne se armis despoliaret.

Vergil, Eclogues 7.1: Forte sub arguta consederat ilice Daphnis,

Plautus, Mostellaria 3.2.694: nón mihi fórte visum ílico fuit,

All forms of fors (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.