fortuito
Italian
Adjective
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- accidental, chance (attributive), fortuitous, casual
- Synonyms: accidentale, casuale
Derived terms
Latin
Etymology
From forte (“by chance”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /for.tuˈiː.toː/, [fɔrt̪uˈiːt̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /for.tuˈi.to/, [fort̪uˈiːt̪o]
Adverb
fortuītō (not comparable)
- by chance, accidentally, casually
- Synonym: forte
- fortuitously
Related terms
References
- “fortuito”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fortuito”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fortuito in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- quite accidentally, fortuitously: temere et fortuito; forte (et) temere
- quite accidentally, fortuitously: temere et fortuito; forte (et) temere
- Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)
Portuguese
Adjective
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- fortuitous (happening by chance, not necessarily a lucky one)
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
fortuito (feminine fortuita, masculine plural fortuitos, feminine plural fortuitas)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “fortuito”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014