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“fortuna”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Eyos son ainda chikos i povres. Para kualo kazarlos antes ke eyos tengan una fortuna? ― They remain small and poor. Why marry them before they become wealthy?
For the meaning development compare with Russian везе́ние(vezénije, “luck, good luck”) related to везти́(veztí, “to convey, to carry (by vehicle), to deliver, to transport”); furthermore cf. partly synonymous and cognate Ancient Greek συμφορά(sumphorá, “fortune, bad luck, good luck”) (< σῠμφέρω(sŭmphérō) < φέρω(phérō)).
Quibus rebus adductus Caesar non expectandum sibi statuit dum, omnibus fortunis sociorum consumptis, in Santonos Helvetii pervenirent.
Caesar, induced by these circumstances, decides that he ought not to wait until the Helvetii, after destroying all the property of his allies, should arrive among the Santones.
^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “fors, -tis (>Derivatives > fortūna)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 236
Further reading
“fortuna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“fortuna”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"fortuna", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
fortuna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
the position of the lower classes: condicio ac fortuna hominum infimi generis
to be fortunate, lucky: fortuna secunda uti
to be favoured by Fortune; to bask in Fortune's smiles: fortunae favore or prospero flatu fortunae uti (vid. sect. VI. 8., note uti...)
to be favoured by Fortune; to bask in Fortune's smiles: fortunam fautricem nancisci
Fortune makes men shortsighted, infatuates them: fortuna caecos homines efficit, animos occaecat
to try one's luck: fortunam tentare, experiri
to run a risk; to tempt Providence: fortunam periclitari (periculum facere)
to trust to luck: fortunae se committere
to have success in one's grasp: fortunam in manibus habere
to let success slip through one's fingers: fortunam ex manibus dimittere
luck is changing, waning: fortuna commutatur, se inclinat
the plaything of Fortune: ludibrium fortunae
Fortune's favourite: is, quem fortuna complexa est
to be abandoned by good luck: a fortuna desertum, derelictum esse
Fortune exalts a man, makes him conspicuous: fortuna aliquem effert
misfortune, adversity: fortuna adversa
to struggle with adversity: conflictari (cum) adversa fortuna
the vicissitudes of fortune: fortunae vicissitudines
to experience the vicissitudes of fortune; to have a chequered career: varia fortuna uti
to be exposed to the assaults of fate: fortunae telis propositum esse
to be abandoned to fate: fortunae obiectum esse
to be a victim of the malice of Fortune: ad iniurias fortunae expositum esse
to acquiesce in one's fate: fortunae cedere
to be in the enjoyment of a large fortune: fortunis maximis ornatum esse
I am discontented with my lot: fortunae meae me paenitet
to drive a person out of house and home: exturbare aliquem omnibus fortunis, e possessionibus
to drive a person out of house and home: evertere aliquem bonis, fortunis patriis
to take up one's abode in a place, settle down somewhere: sedem ac domicilium (fortunas suas) constituere alicubi
a degraded, servile condition: infima fortuna or condicio servorum
“fortuna”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“fortuna”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
“fortuna”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “fortuna”, in “O języku ludowym w powiecie przasnyskim”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 107
Kazimierz Nitsch (1907) “fortuna”, in “Dyalekty polskie Prus zachodnich”, in Materyały i Prace Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie (in Polish), volume 3, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 388