fatum

Latin

Etymology

From fātus, perfect active participle of for (“speak”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfaː.tum/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.tum/,

Noun

fātum n (genitive fātī); second declension

1. destiny, fate, lot

   Synonyms: fortūna, sors, necessitās

   alicuius fatum est/ alicui fatum est + infinitive ― someone is fated to ...

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.1–3:

     Arma virumque canō, Trōiae quī prīmus ab ōrīs
     Ītaliam, fātō profugus, Lāvīniaque vēnit
     lītora, .

     I sing of arms and a man, exiled by fate, who first came from the coasts of Troy to Italy and the shores of Lavinium.
     (Here, “by fate” is an ablative of cause, meaning “because of,” or “on account of.” The epic of Aeneas and his band of refugees begins: divine fate compels their actions and will propel the story. See: Aeneid, Troy, Italy, Lavinium.)

2. (in the plural) death

   Synonyms: mors, fūnus, exitus, perniciēs, interitus, somnus, fīnis, sopor

3. (of a god) speech
4. utterance, declaration, proclamation, prediction, prophecy

   Synonyms: praedictiō, praedictum, prophētīa

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.481–482:

     sīc erat in fātīs; nec tē tua culpa fugāvit, sed deus

     Thus it was in the prophecies: no fault of yours has exiled you, but a god.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Derived terms

• Fāta
• fātidicus
• fātifer
• fātiloquus

Descendants

See also

• fātus

Participle

fātum

1. inflection of fātus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

References

• “fatum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fatum in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• “fatum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fatum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Polish

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fatum

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fātum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.tum/

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• Rhymes: -atum
• Syllabification: fa‧tum

Noun

fatum n

1. destiny, fate, doom, jinx

Declension

Further reading

• fatum in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• fatum in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin fatum.

Noun

fatum n (uncountable)

1. fate

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin fatum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fǎːtum/
• Hyphenation: fa‧tum

Noun

fátum m (Cyrillic spelling фа́тум)

1. fate, destiny

Declension

References

• “fatum” in Hrvatski jezični portal

West Makian

Etymology

May be the same as West Makian fatung (“to sniff”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɸa.t̪um/

Verb

fatum

1. (transitive) to smell (something)

Conjugation

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics