fortuit

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French fortuit, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin fortuitus.

Adjective

fortuit (comparative more fortuit, superlative most fortuit)

1. (obsolete) Fortuitous.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames 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 […].

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French

Adjective

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

1. fortuitous (happening by chance, by fortune)

Further reading

• “fortuit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.