fortuit

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Middle French fortuit, from Latin fortuitus.

Adjective[edit]

fortuit (comparative more fortuit, superlative most fortuit)

  1. (obsolete) Fortuitous.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: [], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 5:
      And so for false fears and all other fortuit inconveniences, mischances, calamities, to resist and prepare ourselves, not to faint is best […].

French[edit]

Adjective[edit]

fortuit (feminine fortuite, masculine plural fortuits, feminine plural fortuites)

  1. fortuitous (happening by chance, by fortune)

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Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French fortuit, from Latin fortuitus.

Adjective[edit]

fortuit m or n (feminine singular fortuită, masculine plural fortuiți, feminine and neuter plural fortuite)

  1. fortuitous

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