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From Venetanfortuna, from Latinfortūna(“misfortune”). Possibly the word passed through Greekφουρτούνα(fourtoúna), which appears some decades earlier in the written record, but Kahane et al. consider the word to be a direct borrowing from Venetan. Compare Italianfortunale(“storm surge”).
Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 305, page 225
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Tempestas”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1655
