forte

A strength or talent; a strong point.

He writes respectably, but poetry is not his forte.

Between ourselves, the country is rather triste, and you have given me positively a sensation; yet my forte is not the Arcadian: however, I will do my petit possible to console you for the loss of le beau Lindor, who was my predecessor.

The strong part of a sword blade, close to the hilt.

Loudly, as a dynamic in a piece of music.

(abbreviation) f

The musicians played the passage forte.

Loud.

This passage is forte, then there's a diminuendo to mezzo piano.