fortuito
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /forˈtu.i.to/[1][2]
- Rhymes: -uito
- Hyphenation: for‧tù‧i‧to
Adjective
fortuito (feminine fortuita, masculine plural fortuiti, feminine plural fortuite)
- (relational) chance; accidental, fortuitous, casual
- Synonyms: accidentale, casuale
Derived terms
- fortuitamente
References
- fortuito in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- fortuito in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
Latin
Etymology
From forte (“by chance”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /for.tuˈiː.toː/, [fɔrt̪uˈiːt̪oː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /for.tuˈi.to/, [fort̪uˈiːt̪o]
Adverb
fortuītō (not comparable)
- by chance, accidentally, casually
- Synonym: forte
- fortuitously
Related terms
- fors
- forsan
- forsit
- forsitan
- fortasse
- fortassis
- forte
- fortuītus
- fortūna
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
- quite accidentally, fortuitously: temere et fortuito; forte (et) temere
- Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)
Portuguese
Adjective
fortuito (feminine fortuita, masculine plural fortuitos, feminine plural fortuitas)
- fortuitous (happening by chance, not necessarily a lucky one)
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin fortuītus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /foɾˈtwito/ [foɾˈt̪wi.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -ito
- Syllabification: for‧tui‧to
Adjective
fortuito (feminine fortuita, masculine plural fortuitos, feminine plural fortuitas)
- by chance, accidental, fortuitous, casual
Derived terms
- caso fortuito
- fortuitamente
Further reading
- “fortuito”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014