suerte
Asturian
Etymology
From Latin sors, sortem.
Noun
suerte f (plural suertes)
- luck (something that happens to someone by chance)
Middle English
Noun
suerte
- Alternative form of surete
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish suerte, from Latin sortem, singular accusative of sors, from Proto-Italic *sortis, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsweɾte/ [ˈsweɾ.t̪e]
- Rhymes: -eɾte
- Syllabification: suer‧te
Noun
suerte f (plural suertes)
- luck, fortune
- 1998, “El Viento”, in Clandestino, performed by Manu Chao:
- Por la frontera
La suerte viene
La suerte se va- (please add an English translation of this quote)
-
- lot, fate
- Esta es mi suerte en la vida, y tengo que aceptarla.
- This is my lot in life, and I have to accept it.
- sort, kind, type
- Synonym: tipo
- oracular response
- (bullfighting) stage in a bullfight
- (Latin America) lottery ticket
Derived terms
- buena suerte
- de suerte que
- echar a suertes
- galleta de la suerte
- golpe de suerte
- la suerte favorece a los audaces
- mala suerte
- por suerte
- probar suerte
- suerte de principiante
- suertudo
- tentar a la suerte
- uvas de la suerte
Related terms
- sortear
Descendants
- → Cebuano: swerte
- → Tagalog: swerte
Interjection
¡suerte!
- good luck!
Further reading
- “suerte”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog
Noun
suerte
- Superseded, pre-1977 spelling of suwerte.