fate

See also: Fate

English

Etymology

From Latin fata (“prediction”) (neutral plural of fatum), fatus 'spoken', fari (“to speak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /feɪt/

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• Rhymes: -eɪt

Noun

fate (countable and uncountable, plural fates)

1. The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
   • 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterI:

     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.

2. The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
3. Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.

   Accept your fate.

4. (mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).

Synonyms

• destiny
• doom
• fortune
• kismet
• lot
• necessity
• orlay
• predestination
• wyrd

Antonyms

• choice
• free will
• freedom

Derived terms

• fatal
• fatalism
• fatality
• tempt fate

Related terms

• amor fati (Amor fati)

Translations

that which predetermines events

• Albanian: gullmë (sq) f

  Arbëreshë: psorë (sq) m

• Arabic: قِسْمَة‎ f (qisma), مَصِير‎ m (maṣīr), قَدَر‎ (ar) m (qadar)

  Hijazi Arabic: مَصِير‎ m (maṣīr), قَدَر‎ m (gadar), نَصيب‎ m (naṣīb), قِسْمَة‎ f (gisma)

• Armenian: ճակատագիր (hy) (čakatagir), բախտ (hy) (baxt)
• Aromanian: soarti f, soarte f, lahno, mirã, nãfãcã, scriatã, tihi, ursitã
• Bashkir: яҙмыш (yaðmïš)
• Basque: halabehar (eu)
• Belarusian: лёс m (ljós)
• Bulgarian: съдба (bg) f (sǎdba), у́част (bg) f (účast), орис (bg) f (oris)
• Catalan: destí (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎢᏳᏓᎵᏍᏓᏁᏗ (iyudalisdanedi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 命運 (zh), 命运 (zh) (mìngyùn), 氣數 (zh), 气数 (zh) (qìshu), 宿命 (zh) (sùmìng), 運命 (zh), 运命 (zh) (yùnmìng)

• Czech: osud (cs) m, úděl m
• Dalmatian: suart
• Danish: skæbne
• Dutch: lot (nl) n, beschikking (nl) f
• Esperanto: fatalo
• Faroese: lagna f
• French: destin (fr) m, destinée (fr) f, sort (fr) m
• Friulian: fât, destìn, sorte
• Georgian: ბედი (bedi), ბედისწერა (bedisc̣era)
• German: Schicksal (de) n, Los (de) n, Geschick (de) n
• Greek: μοίρα (el) f (moíra), ειμαρμένη (el) f (eimarméni), πεπρωμένο (el) n (peproméno), τύχη (el) f (týchi)
• Hebrew: מזל‎ (he) m (mazal)
• Hindi: क़िस्मत f (qismat), नसीब (hi) f (nasīb), तक़दीर f (taqdīr)
• Icelandic: örlög (is) n pl
• Istriot: suorto
• Italian: fato (it), sorte (it), destino (it) m
• Japanese: 運命 (ja) (うんめい, unmei), 宿命 (ja) (しゅくめい, shukumei)

• Korean: 운명 (ko) (unmyeong) (運命), 숙명 (sungmyeong) (宿命)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: چاره‌نووس‎ (çarenus)

• Latin: fatum n, sors (la), fatus m, pars (la) f
• Macedonian: судбина f (sudbina)
• Mizo: khúarèl, (literary) khúaléng
• Norman: destinné f, sort m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skjebne (no) m

  Nynorsk: skjebne m

• Occitan: sòrt
• Old English: wyrd f, orlæg n, gesceaft f, gewif n, heahgesceap n, mælgesceaft f, gescipe n
• Polish: los (pl) m, dola (pl) f, przeznaczenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: destino (pt) m, fado (pt)
• Romanian: soartă (ro), destin (ro)
• Romansch: destin, sort
• Russian: судьба́ (ru) f (sudʹbá), до́ля (ru) f (dólja), у́часть (ru) f (účastʹ), рок (ru) m (rok), уде́л (ru) m (udél)
• Sanskrit: भाग्य (sa) (bhāgya), दैव (sa) (daiva), नियति (sa) (niyati), अदृष्ट (sa) (adr̥ṣṭa)
• Sardinian: solte, solte, solti, sorti
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: усуд m, судбина f, судба f

  Roman: usud (sh) m, sudbina (sh) f, sudba (sh) f

• Sicilian: fatu m, distinu (scn) m, sorti
• Slovak: osud m
• Spanish: destino (es) m, azar (es) m
• Swahili: majaliwa (sw)
• Tagalog: tadhana
• Ukrainian: до́ля (uk) f (dólja), льос m (lʹos)
• Venetian: sorte f, sort f, destìn

inevitable events

• Armenian: բախտ (hy) (baxt), ճակատագիր (hy) (čakatagir)
• Czech: osud (cs) m
• Dutch: lot (nl) n
• Greek: τύχη (el) f (týchi), μοίρα (el) f (moíra), πεπρωμένο (el) n (peproméno)
• Hebrew: מזל‎ (he) m (mazal) [luck], גורל‎ (goral)
• Indonesian: nasib (id)
• Italian: destino (it) m, fato (it) m
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: چاره‌نووس‎ (çarenus)

• Latin: fatum n, sors (la)
• Macedonian: судбина f pl (sudbina)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skjebne (no) m

  Nynorsk: skjebne m

• Portuguese: sina (pt) f
• Russian: судьба́ (ru) f (sudʹbá), до́ля (ru) f (dólja), у́часть (ru) f (účastʹ), рок (ru) m (rok)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: усуд m, судбина f

  Roman: usud (sh) m, sudbina (sh) f

• Swahili: majaliwa (sw)
• Venetian: sòrt (vec) f

destiny

• Arabic: قِسْمَة‎ f (qisma), مَصِير‎ m (maṣīr), قَدَر‎ (ar) m (qadar)

  Hijazi Arabic: مَصِير‎ m (maṣīr), قَدَر‎ m (gadar), نَصيب‎ m (naṣīb), قِسْمَة‎ f (gisma)

• Armenian: ճակատագիր (hy) (čakatagir)
• Bashkir: яҙмыш (yaðmïš)
• Basque: adur (eu), zori
• Belarusian: лёс m (ljós)
• Bulgarian: съдба (bg) f (sǎdba), у́част (bg) f (účast), орис (bg) f (oris)
• Catalan: destí (ca) m, planeta (ca) f
• Cherokee: ᎢᏳᏓᎵᏍᏓᏁᏗ (iyudalisdanedi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 命運 (zh), 命运 (zh) (mìngyùn), 氣數 (zh), 气数 (zh) (qìshu), 宿命 (zh) (sùmìng), 運命 (zh), 运命 (zh) (yùnmìng)

• Czech: osud (cs) m
• Danish: skæbne c
• Dutch: lot (nl) n
• Esperanto: sorto (eo)
• Estonian: saatus
• Finnish: kohtalo (fi)
• French: destin (fr) m, destinée (fr) f
• German: Schicksal (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient: μοῖρα f (moîra)

  Modern: μοίρα (el) f (moíra), πεπρωμένο (el) n (peproméno)

• Hebrew: מזל‎ (he) m (mazal), גורל‎ m (gorál)
• Hungarian: végzet (hu)
• Icelandic: örlög (is) n pl
• Italian: destino (it) m, sorte (it) f, fato (it) m
• Japanese: 運命 (ja) (うんめい, unmei), 宿命 (ja) (しゅくめい, shukumei)

• Korean: 숙명 (sungmyeong) (宿命), 운명 (ko) (unmyeong) (運命)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: چاره‌نووس‎ (çarenus), قه‌زا و قه‌ده‌ر‎ (qeza u qeder)

• Latin: fatum n, sors (la), fatus m
• Macedonian: судбина f (sudbina), касмет m (kasmet), судбина f (sudbina)
• Nepali: भाग्य (bhāgya)
• Norman: destinné f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skjebne (no) m

  Nynorsk: skjebne m

• Old English: wyrd f
• Polish: los (pl) m, przeznaczenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: fado (pt) m, destino (pt) m, sorte (pt) f
• Romanian: soartă (ro)
• Russian: судьба́ (ru) f (sudʹbá), до́ля (ru) f (dólja), у́часть (ru) f (účastʹ), рок (ru) m (rok), уде́л (ru) m (udél)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: судба f, судбина f

  Roman: sudba (sh) f, sudbina (sh) f

• Slovene: usoda (sl) f
• Spanish: destino (es) m, azar (es) m
• Swahili: majaliwa (sw)
• Swedish: öde (sv) n
• Ukrainian: до́ля (uk) f (dólja), льос m (lʹos)
• Venetian: sòrt (vec) f
• Volapük: fät (vo)
• Yiddish: גורל‎ m (goyrl)

confidence

• Dutch: vertrouwen (nl) n
• Latin: sors (la)

• Swahili: majaliwa (sw)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} sors (hu)

• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} fato, ^{(please verify)} destino, ^{(please verify)} sorte

See also

• determinism
• indeterminism

Verb

fate (third-person singular simple present fates, present participle fating, simple past and past participle fated)

1. (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

• In some uses this may imply it causes the inevitable event.

Anagrams

• EFTA, TAFE, TFAE, feat, feat., feta

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfaː.t̪e], /ˈfate/
• Hyphenation: fà‧te

Verb

fate

1. second-person plural indicative present of fare
2. second-person plural imperative of fare

Noun

fate f

1. plural of fata

Anagrams

• afte

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Latin

Participle

fate

1. vocative masculine singular of fatus

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Noun

fate

1. dative singular of fat

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Etymology

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Alternative forms

• fat

Numeral

fate

1. Alternative form of fat