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Etymology

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Etymology tree
English fatal
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English fatalist

    From fatal + -ist.

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    fatalist (plural fatalists)

    1. One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity; a person who believes in fatalism.
      • 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter V, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth‎[1]:
        ....it is that, with every day, my love for you increases—though that would seem to be almost an impossibility. Why should I not become a fatalist? Remember how, on the third day that we ascended the Shlangenberg, I was moved to whisper in your ear: 'Say but the word, and I will leap into the abyss.' Had you said it, I should have leapt. Do you not believe me?"
      • 2025 July 21, Jean Garnett, “The Trouble With Wanting Men”, in The New York Times‎[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 21 July 2025:
        “Maybe the problem is that you’re a romantic,” says my former lover-slash-friend-slash-male-sensitivity-reader. “And maybe so are the other fatalists.”
      • 2026 April 3, Matteo Wong, Lila Shroff, “Silicon Valley Is in a Frenzy Over Bots That Build Themselves”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic‎[3], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC:
        [Nick] Bostrom, the philosopher, expressed a sort of resignation about the AI future when we spoke. He used to call himself a “fretful optimist,” he said, but now he’s a “moderate fatalist.”
        (Can we archive this URL?)
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    Romanian

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from French fataliste.

    Adjective

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    fatalist m or n (feminine singular fatalistă, masculine plural fataliști, feminine/neuter plural fataliste)

    1. fatalistic

    Declension

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    Declension of fatalist
    singular plural
    masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
    nominative-
    accusative     		indefinite fatalist fatalistă fataliști fataliste
    definite fatalistul fatalista fataliștii fatalistele
    genitive-
    dative     		indefinite fatalist fataliste fataliști fataliste
    definite fatalistului fatalistei fataliștilor fatalistelor

    Serbo-Croatian

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    Alternative forms

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    Etymology

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    From fátum.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /fatǎlist/
    • Hyphenation: fa‧ta‧list

    Noun

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    fatàlist m anim (Cyrillic spelling фата̀лист)

    1. fatalist

    Declension

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    Declension of fatalist
    singular plural
    nominative fatalist fatalisti
    genitive fatalista fatalista
    dative fatalistu fatalistima
    accusative fatalista fataliste
    vocative fataliste fatalisti
    locative fatalistu fatalistima
    instrumental fatalistom fatalistima

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    • “fatalist”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

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    Noun

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    fatalist c

    1. a fatalist

    Declension

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    Declension of fatalist
    nominative genitive
    singular indefinite fatalist fatalists
    definite fatalisten fatalistens
    plural indefinite fatalister fatalisters
    definite fatalisterna fatalisternas
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