fortificar
Portuguese
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) to fortify to build fortifications in or around a place
- (transitive) to fortify; to strengthen to make stronger
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fortificare, fortifico, fortis (strong, mighty, brave).
Origin
Latin
fortis
Gloss
strong, mighty, brave
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
強
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- fortis English
- *fortia Latin
- conforto Latin
- fortalitia Latin
- fortia Latin
- fortificare, fortifico Latin
- fortificationem, fortificatio Latin
- fortifico Latin
- fortificāre Latin
- fortificāre, fortificō, fortifico Latin
- fortificātiōnem, fortificātiō, fortificatio Latin
- fortis Latin
- fortiter Latin
- fortitudo Latin
- fortificar Spanish, Castilian
- fuerte Spanish, Castilian
- *bʰerǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- fortificação Portuguese
- fort Polish
- fort Old French
- forta Esperanto
- fortificar Catalan, Valencian
- fortë Albanian
- fortifier Middle French
- fòrt Occitan
- fuercia Asturian
- forctis Old Latin
- fuorte Mirandese