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English
Etymology
Latin infortunatus.
Adjective
infortunate (comparative more infortunate, superlative most infortunate)
- (obsolete) Unfortunate, unlucky.
1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Henry, though he be infortunate
1599, Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, , London: [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N L and C B , →OCLC, page 2:That infortunate imperfit Embrion of my idle houres the Ile of Dogs before mentioned, breeding vnto me ſuch bitter throwes in the teaming as it did, and the tempeſtes that aroſe at his birth, ſo aſtoniſhing outragious and violent as if my braine had bene conceiued of another Hercules, I was ſo terrifyed with my owne encreaſe (like a woman long trauailing to bee deliuered of a monſter) that it was no ſooner borne but I was glad to run from it.
References
Italian
Etymology 1
Adjective
infortunate
- feminine plural of infortunato
Participle
infortunate f pl
- feminine plural of infortunato
Etymology 2
Noun
infortunate f
- plural of infortunata
Latin
Adjective
īnfortūnāte
- vocative masculine singular of īnfortūnātus