Fortunatus

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See also: fortunatus

Latin

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Pronunciation

Proper noun

Fortūnātus m sg (genitive Fortūnātī); second declension

  1. A masculine cognomen — famously held by:
    1. Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus (circa AD 530–600/609): Latin poet, hymnodist, and historian at the court of the Merovingians; bishop of Poitiers; and friend, beneficiary, and defender of Gregory of Tours
    2. Fortunatus, a legendary young man, who is gifted by Fortune with a bottomless purse.
      • 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Talisman, page 98:
        And then followed such a list of estates here, and estates there, mortgages in every county in England, and money vested in the stocks of every known capital—English, French, Russian, and American—that Scott began to think the late Henry Smythe must have been the possessor of Fortunatus's purse.

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Fortūnātus
Genitive Fortūnātī
Dative Fortūnātō
Accusative Fortūnātum
Ablative Fortūnātō
Vocative Fortūnāte

Descendants

  • French: Fortunat
  • Italian: Fortunato
  • Russian: Фортуна́т (Fortunát)

References

  • 2 Fortūnātus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.: “682/2”

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