fortuitus

Latin

Etymology

From *fortu- (“chance, luck, fortune”) +‎ -ītus (suffix forming adjectives). *Fortu- is derived from an unattested u-stem action noun *fortus built on the root of fors (“chance, luck”) (from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns); an u-stem formation also seems to be behind fortūna (“fortune, luck, destiny”). Compare the formation of grātuītus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fɔr.tuˈiː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [for.tuˈiː.tus]

Adjective

fortuītus (feminine fortuīta, neuter fortuītum, adverb fortuītō); first/second-declension adjective

1. happening by chance, accidental, random, fortuitous

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	fortuītus	fortuīta	fortuītum		fortuītī	fortuītae	fortuīta
genitive	fortuītī	fortuītae	fortuītī		fortuītōrum	fortuītārum	fortuītōrum
dative	fortuītō	fortuītae	fortuītō		fortuītīs
accusative	fortuītum	fortuītam	fortuītum		fortuītōs	fortuītās	fortuīta
ablative	fortuītō	fortuītā	fortuītō		fortuītīs
vocative	fortuīte	fortuīta	fortuītum		fortuītī	fortuītae	fortuīta

Related terms

• fors
• forsan
• forsit
• forsitan
• fortāsse
• fortāssis
• forte
• fortuītō
• fortūna

Descendants

• Catalan: fortuït
• English: fortuitous
• French: fortuit
• Italian: fortuito
• Portuguese: fortuito
• Spanish: fortuito
• Translingual: Mycobacterium fortuitum

Further reading

• “fortuitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fortuitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fortuitus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• fortuitus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)