Fata

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English

Proper noun

Fata (plural Fatas)

  1. A surname.

Statistics

  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Fata is the 25226th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 982 individuals. Fata is most common among White (80.65%) individuals.

Anagrams

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From fātum (“destiny, lot, fate”) and fātus (“oracle, prophecy, fate”); derived from verb for (“I speak”) from Proto-Italic *fāōr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂ti (“to speak”).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Fāta f (genitive Fātae); first declension

  1. (Greek mythology, mythology) Alternative letter-case form of fāta (“Fate; Moira; Fairy, fay, deity of destiny; divine personification of fate”)
    Fatis Fata[bus] / Druinus M(arci) No[ni] / Arri Muciani c(onsulis) [opp. c(larissimi viri)] / actor praedioru[m] / Tublinat(ium), tegurium / a solo inpendio suo fe/cit et in tutela eius / sestertios n(ummos) CC conlustrio / fundi Vettiani dedit.
    To Fates and Fairies. Druinus, (slave) of consul Marcus Nonius Arrius Mucianus, administrator of the Toblino estates, erected a shrine at his own expense and for its maintenance he offered two hundred sesterces on the occasion of the purification ceremony of the Vezzano estate

Declension

First-declension noun (dative/ablative plural in -ābus)
singular plural
nominative Fāta Fātae
genitive Fātae Fātārum
dative Fātae Fātābus
accusative Fātam Fātās
ablative Fātā Fātābus
vocative Fāta Fātae

Proper noun

Fāta n pl (genitive Fātōrum); second declension

  1. (Roman mythology) Alternative letter-case form of fāta (“Fates; Parcae; Fairies, fey, deities of destiny; divine personifications of fate”)
    Fatis Fata[bus] / Druinus M(arci) No[ni] / Arri Muciani c(onsulis) [opp. c(larissimi viri)] / actor praedioru[m] / Tublinat(ium), tegurium / a solo inpendio suo fe/cit et in tutela eius / sestertios n(ummos) CC conlustrio / fundi Vettiani dedit.
    To Fates and Fairies. Druinus, (slave) of consul Marcus Nonius Arrius Mucianus, administrator of the Toblino estates, erected a shrine at his own expense and for its maintenance he offered two hundred sesterces on the occasion of the purification ceremony of the Vezzano estate

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only
plural
nominative Fāta
genitive Fātōrum
dative Fātīs
accusative Fāta
ablative Fātīs
vocative Fāta

Descendants

  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: fata
  • North Italian:
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:

Further reading

  • “fatum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “fatum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fadus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • Fata in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 655.
  • Fata in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 2697

Romanian

Etymology

From fata, definite form of fată.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Fata f

  1. A village in Vedea, Argeș, Romania
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