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ForgeEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
From Old French forge (“forge, furnace”), a surname for someone who lived near or worked in a forge or smithy.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗forgeEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Middle English forge, from Old French forge, early Old French faverge, from Latin fabrica (“workshop”), from faber (“workman in hard materials, smith”) (genitive fabri). Cognate with Franco-Provençal favèrge. Doublet of fabric and fabrica. Partially displaced English smithy. * Computing sense perhaps derived from the early SourceForge service, launched in 1999.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗forgeEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Middle English forgen, from Anglo-Norman forger and Old French forgier, from Latin fabrico (“to frame, construct, build”). Doublet of fabricate.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗forgeEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
Make way, move ahead, most likely an alteration of force, but perhaps from forge (n.), via notion of steady hammering at something. Originally nautical, in reference to vessels.
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Chambers (1908)
1908- ForgeEnglish · e-38538-2087
Forge, fōrj, n. the workshop of a workman in iron, &c.: a furnace, esp. one in which iron is heated: a smithy: a place where anything is shaped or made.—v.t. to form by heating and hammering: to form: to make falsely: to
Read the full source record → - ForgeEnglish · e-38538-2088
Forge, fōrj, v.t. to move steadily on (with ahead).
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