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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin fata (“prediction”), plural of fatum, from fatus (“spoken”), from for (“to speak”). Displaced native Old English wyrd.
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Noun[edit]
fate (countable and uncountable, plural fates)
- The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314:
- Captain Edward Carlisle […] felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, […]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
- The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
- An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
- Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
- Accept your fate.
- (mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).
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Translations[edit]
that which predetermines events
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inevitable events
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destiny
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goddess
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Verb[edit]
fate (third-person singular simple present fates, present participle fating, simple past and past participle fated)
- (transitive) To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
- The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.
- 2011, James Al-Shamma, Sarah Ruhl: A Critical Study of the Plays (page 119)
- At the conclusion of this part, Eric, who plays Jesus and is now a soldier, captures Violet in the forest, fating her to a concentration camp.
Usage notes[edit]
- In some uses this may imply it causes the inevitable event.
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Fataluku[edit]
Numeral[edit]
fate
Italian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
fate
- inflection of fare:
Noun[edit]
fate f
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Participle[edit]
fāte
Murui Huitoto[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
fate
- (transitive) to hit
- (intransitive) to hit
References[edit]
- Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.[1], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 130
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Verb[edit]
fate (present tense fatar, past tense fata, past participle fata, passive infinitive fatast, present participle fatande, imperative fat)
- Alternative form of fata
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Scots[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fate
Volapük[edit]
Noun[edit]
fate
Yamdena[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *ǝpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ǝpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Sǝpat.
Numeral[edit]
fate
- Alternative form of fat
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰeh₂- (speak)
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