fortuito

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /forˈtu.i.to/
  • Rhymes: -uito
  • Hyphenation: for‧tù‧i‧to

Adjective

fortuito (feminine fortuita, masculine plural fortuiti, feminine plural fortuite)

  1. (relational) chance; accidental, fortuitous, casual
    Synonyms: accidentale, casuale

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ fortuito in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
  2. ^ fortuito in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Latin

Etymology

From forte (“by chance”).

Pronunciation

Adverb

fortuītō (not comparable)

  1. by chance, accidentally, by accident, casually
    Synonym: forte
  2. fortuitously

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References

  • “fortuito”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “fortuito”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fortuito in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • quite accidentally, fortuitously: temere et fortuito; forte (et) temere
  • Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin fortuītus.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /foʁˈtuj.tu/ , (nonstandard but common) /foʁ.tuˈi.tu/ , (nonstandard but common, faster pronunciation) /foʁˈtwi.tu/
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /foɾˈtuj.tu/ , (nonstandard but common) /foɾ.tuˈi.tu/ , (nonstandard but common, faster pronunciation) /foɾˈtwi.tu/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /foʁˈtuj.tu/ , (nonstandard but common) /foʁ.tuˈi.tu/ , (nonstandard but common, faster pronunciation) /foʁˈtwi.tu/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /foɻˈtuj.to/ , (nonstandard but common) /foɻ.tuˈi.to/ , (nonstandard but common, faster pronunciation) /foɻˈtwi.to/

  • Hyphenation: for‧tui‧to

Adjective

fortuito (feminine fortuita, masculine plural fortuitos, feminine plural fortuitas)

  1. fortuitous (happening by chance, not necessarily a lucky one)

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin fortuītus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /foɾˈtwito/
  • Rhymes: -ito
  • Syllabification: for‧tui‧to

Adjective

fortuito (feminine fortuita, masculine plural fortuitos, feminine plural fortuitas)

  1. by chance, accidental, fortuitous, casual
    • 2023 May 25, Federico Rivas Molina, “El lento pero persistente declive del kirchnerismo”, in El País‎:
      El 25 de mayo de 2003, hace exactamente 20 años, Kirchner juraba como presidente, se mezclaba entre la multitud, recibía un corte en el rostro producto de un golpe fortuito con una cámara de fotos y se proclamaba el timonel de una nueva Argentina. Nacía el kirchnerismo.
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