fortunate

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fortunatus.

Morphologically fortune +‎ -ate.

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Adjective

fortunate (comparative more fortunate, superlative most fortunate)

  1. Auspicious.
    It is a fortunate sign if the sun shines on a newly wedded couple.
    • 1854, Edward Stanley, A Familiar History of Birds : Their Nature, Habits and Instincts‎, page 144:
      if it sits still, with its breast towards them, till they have passed, they consider it as a fortunate sign, and everything is expected to go on well during the remainder of their journey
  2. Happening by good luck or favorable chance.
    Patrick was the unlikely match-winner as Berkeley earned a fortunate victory over Chisolm.
    • 2011, George G. Szpiro, Pricing the Future: Finance, Physics, and the 300-year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation‎:
      How many lucky winners, Regnault lamented, boastfully ascribe their success to wise decisions while in reality their triumph was nothing more than the fortunate outcome of random events?
    • 2018 July 11, “How Nina Weiner turns dreams into a reality”, in The Jerusalem Post:
      Weiner acknowledges that a stroke of good luck has helped steer her to a more fortunate path early on in life.
  3. Favored by fortune.
    We were fortunate not to be fined for speeding.
    This is a time when we think of those less fortunate than ourselves.

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Italian

Adjective

fortunate

  1. feminine plural of fortunato

Latin

Etymology

From fortūnātus (“fortunate, prosperous”).

Adverb

fortūnātē (comparative fortūnātius, superlative fortūnātissimē)

  1. prosperously, fortunately

References

  • “fortunate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “fortunate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fortunate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)
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