infortune

From Latin infortunium. See in- (“not”), and fortune.

infortune (usually uncountable, plural infortunes)

1. (obsolete) misfortune

infortune (third-person singular simple present infortunes, present participle infortuning, simple past and past participle infortuned)

1. To afflict
2. (astrology, of a planet) To have a malign influence

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.fɔʁ.tyn/

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• Rhymes: -yn
• Homophone: infortunes

infortune f (plural infortunes)

1. misfortune
   • 1640, Pierre Corneille, Horace, act I, scene I:

     C’en est peut-être assez pour une âme commune / Qui du moindre péril se fait une infortune

     That is enough, perhaps, for a soul of common sort / Who considers as misfortune the smallest danger

   • 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Volume I, Chapter XXIX:

     Ce fut au fond des leurs [leurs âmes] que ceux qui avaient écouté le récit de ses infortunes ressentirent l’étonnement et la compassion qu’elle inspirait.

     It happened in the bottom of theirs that those that had listened to the narrative of her misfortunes felt the astonishment and compassion that she inspired.

• compagnon d’infortune

• fortune
• infortuné

• “infortune”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

infortune (plural infortunes)

1. misfortune
   • 1394, Chaucer, “v. 3591”, in The Monk's Tale‎:

     Why sholde I nat thyn infortune acounte, Sith in estaat thow cloumbe were so hye?

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