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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French fortuit, from Latin fortuitus.
Adjective
fortuit (comparative more fortuit, superlative most fortuit)
- (obsolete) Fortuitous.
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 5:And so for false fears and all other fortuit inconveniences, mischances, calamities, to resist and prepare ourselves, not to faint is best […].
French
Adjective
fortuit (feminine fortuite, masculine plural fortuits, feminine plural fortuites)
- fortuitous (happening by chance, by fortune)
Further reading
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French fortuit, from Latin fortuitus.
Adjective
fortuit m or n (feminine singular fortuită, masculine plural fortuiți, feminine and neuter plural fortuite)
- fortuitous
Declension