fate

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See also: Fate and fă-te

English

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Etymology

From Middle English fate, from Latin fāta (“prediction”), plural of fātum, from fātus (“spoken”), from for (“to speak”). In this sense, displaced native Old English wyrd, whence Modern English weird.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /feɪt/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪt

Noun

fate (countable and uncountable, plural fates)

  1. The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
    Synonyms: destiny, natural order
    Antonym: free will
    • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      Captain Edward Carlisle […] felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, […]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
  2. The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
  3. An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
    Synonym: destiny
    Antonyms: accident, chance
  4. Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
    Synonyms: doom, portion, wyrd; see also Thesaurus:fate
    Antonyms: fortune, luck
    Accept your fate.
  5. (mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).
  6. (biochemistry) The products of a chemical reaction in their final form in the biosphere.
    • 2019 July 12, Danielle Freeman, “Archived copy”, in Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution‎, archived from the original on 11 October 2022:
      It’s important to research chemical fate because chemical fate is the best tool we have for understanding and managing human health risks or environmental damage caused by chemical release.
  7. (embryology) The mature endpoint of a region, group of cells or individual cell in an embryo, including all changes leading to that mature endpoint
    Synonym: developmental pathway

Derived terms

Translations

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Verb

fate (third-person singular simple present fates, present participle fating, simple past and past participle fated)

  1. (transitive) To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
    The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.
    • 2011, James Al-Shamma, Sarah Ruhl: A Critical Study of the Plays, page 119:
      At the conclusion of this part, Eric, who plays Jesus and is now a soldier, captures Violet in the forest, fating her to a concentration camp.

Usage notes

  • In some uses this may imply it causes the inevitable event.

Translations

References

  • (embryology) J.M.W. Slack (1991) “The concepts of experimental embryology”, in From Egg to Embryo, 2 edition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 32

Anagrams

Albanian

Noun

fate

  1. indefinite nominative/accusative plural of fat

Fataluku

Numeral

fate

  1. four

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfa.te/
  • Rhymes: -ate
  • Hyphenation: fà‧te

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

fate

  1. inflection of fare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

fate f

  1. plural of fata

Anagrams

Latin

Participle

fāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of fātus

Murui Huitoto

Etymology

Cognates include Minica Huitoto fate and Nüpode Huitoto patde.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: fa‧te

Verb

fate

  1. (transitive) to hit
  2. (intransitive) to hit

Conjugation

Conjugation of fate
Nonfuture indicative Future indicative
affirmative negative affirmative negative
m f m f m f m f
1st sg fatɨkue fañedɨkue 1st sg faitɨkue fañeitɨkue
2nd sg fato fañedo 2nd sg faito fañeito
3rd sg anim1) fatɨmɨe fatɨñaiño fañedɨmɨe fañedɨñaiño 3rd sg anim1) faitɨmɨe faitɨñaiño fañeitɨmɨe fañeitɨñaiño
1st du fatɨkoko fatɨkaɨñaɨ fañedɨkoko fañedɨkaɨñaɨ 1st du faitɨkoko faitɨkaɨñaɨ fañeitɨkoko fañeitɨkaɨñaɨ
2nd du fatomɨko fatomɨñoɨ fañedomɨko fañedomɨñoɨ 2nd du faitomɨko faitomɨñoɨ fañeitomɨko fañeitomɨñoɨ
3rd du anim1) fataɨmaiaɨ fataɨñuaɨ fañedaɨmaiaɨ fañedaɨñuaɨ 3rd du anim1) faitaɨmaiaɨ faitaɨñuaɨ fañeitaɨmaiaɨ fañeitaɨñuaɨ
1st pl fatɨkaɨ fañedɨkaɨ 1st pl faitɨkaɨ fañeitɨkaɨ
2nd pl fatomoɨ fañedomoɨ 2nd pl faitomoɨ fañeitomoɨ
3rd pl anim1) fatɨmakɨ fañedɨmakɨ 3rd pl anim1) faitɨmakɨ fañeitɨmakɨ
3rd neut fate fañede 3rd neut faite fañeite
Imperative Apprehensive Future event Passive Negative passive Overlap
simple immediate prohibitive nonfuture future nonfuture future
fano! fanokai! fañeno! faiza! faye faga fayɨ fañega fañeyɨ fakana
Conditional 1) The animate 3rd person inflections are only used when the animacy of the subject needs to be emphasised. Otherwise, the neutral 3rd singular is used.
*) Same-time forms may be formed from any indicative form by adding the ending -mo directly to the inflected form.
**) The evidentiality markers -dɨ, -za and -ta may be added to any indicative form.
real hypothetical immediate
faia fana fakaina

References

  • Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎ (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 84
  • Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎, Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 130

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

fate (present tense fatar, past tense fata, past participle fata, passive infinitive fatast, present participle fatande, imperative fate/fat)

  1. Alternative form of fata

Anagrams

Scots

Pronunciation

Noun

fate

  1. feat
  2. fate
    • 1885, E. J. Guthrie, Old Scottish Customs (overall work in English), page 74:
      It was na me wha made the choice. I mysell was a' for Robert, but fate had it I was tae get the ither, and wha can gang again fate?
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Spanish

Verb

fate

  1. inflection of far:
    1. second-person singular imperative combined with te
    2. second-person singular voseo imperative combined with te

Volapük

Noun

fate

  1. dative singular of fat

Yamdena

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *ǝpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ǝpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Sǝpat.

Numeral

fate

  1. Alternative form of fat
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