afortunado

Portuguese

Etymology

Past participle of afortunar.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.foʁ.tuˈna.du/ [a.foh.tuˈna.du]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.foʁ.tuˈna.du/ [a.foh.tuˈna.du]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /a.foɾ.tuˈna.du/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /a.foʁ.tuˈna.du/ [a.foχ.tuˈna.du]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /a.foɻ.tuˈna.du/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.foʁ.tuˈna.do/ [a.foh.tuˈna.do]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.fuɾ.tuˈna.du/ [ɐ.fuɾ.tuˈna.ðu]

• Hyphenation: a‧for‧tu‧na‧do

Adjective

afortunado (feminine afortunada, masculine plural afortunados, feminine plural afortunadas)

1. (of an event) fortunate; auspicious (coming by good luck or favourable chance)

   Synonym: feliz

2. (of a person) fortunate; lucky (favourable by good luck)

   Synonym: sortudo

Derived terms

• afortunadamente

Noun

afortunado m (plural afortunados, feminine afortunada, feminine plural afortunadas)

1. a fortunate person

   Synonym: sortudo

Further reading

• “afortunado”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “afortunado”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish a-

Spanish fortuna

Spanish -ar

Spanish afortunar

Spanish -ado

Spanish afortunado

From afortunar + -ado.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /afoɾtuˈnado/ [a.foɾ.t̪uˈna.ð̞o]

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• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: a‧for‧tu‧na‧do

Adjective

afortunado (feminine afortunada, masculine plural afortunados, feminine plural afortunadas)

1. lucky, fortunate

   Synonym: suertudo

   Antonym: desafortunado

   Me considero afortunado.

   I consider myself lucky.

Derived terms

• afortunadamente

Participle

afortunado (feminine afortunada, masculine plural afortunados, feminine plural afortunadas)

1. past participle of afortunar

Further reading

• “afortunado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025