fortes

fortes is a Latin form of fortis, meaning “brave, strong”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective.

It can also be a form of fors, “chance, luck”.

Found 158 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.61: … , quod erant honesto loco nati et instructi liberaliter magnoque comitatu et multis iumentis venerant virique fortes habebantur et in honore apud Caesarem fuerant, quodque novum et praeter consuetudinem acciderat, omnia sua pr …

Cicero, De Officiis 1.65: Fortes igitur et magnanimi sunt habendi, non qui faciunt, sed qui propulsant iniuriam. Vera autem et sapiens animi m …

All forms of fortis (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.