fatum
See also: fátum
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From fātus, perfect active participle of for (“speak”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfaː.tum/, [ˈfäːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfa.tum/, [ˈfäːt̪um]
Noun edit
fātum n (genitive fātī); second declension
- destiny, fate, lot
- Synonyms: fortūna, sors, necessitās
- alicuius fatum est/ alicui fatum est + infinitive ― someone is fated to ...
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.1–3:
- Arma virumque canō, Trōiae quī prīmus ab ōrīs
Ītaliam, fātō profugus, Lāvīniaque vēnit
lītora, [...].- I sing of arms and a man, exiled by fate, who first came from the coasts of Troy to Italy and the shores of Lavinium.
(Here, “by fate” [fātō] is an ablative of cause, meaning “because of,” or “on account of.” The epic of Aeneas and his band of refugees begins: divine fate compels their actions and will propel the story. See: Aeneid, Troy, Italy, Lavinium.)
- I sing of arms and a man, exiled by fate, who first came from the coasts of Troy to Italy and the shores of Lavinium.
- Arma virumque canō, Trōiae quī prīmus ab ōrīs
- (in the plural) death
- (of a god) speech
- utterance, declaration, proclamation, prediction, prophecy
- Synonyms: praedictiō, praedictum, prophētīa
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | fātum | fāta |
Genitive | fātī | fātōrum |
Dative | fātō | fātīs |
Accusative | fātum | fāta |
Ablative | fātō | fātīs |
Vocative | fātum | fāta |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Descendants
See also edit
Participle edit
fātum
- inflection of fātus:
References edit
- “fatum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- fatum in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
- “fatum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “fatum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin fātum.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fatum n
Declension edit
Declension of fatum
Further reading edit
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Latin fatum.
Noun edit
fatum n (uncountable)
Declension edit
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fátum m (Cyrillic spelling фа́тум)
Declension edit
Declension of fatum
References edit
- “fatum” in Hrvatski jezični portal
West Makian edit
Etymology edit
May be the same as West Makian fatung (“to sniff”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
fatum
- (transitive) to smell (something)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of fatum (action verb) | ||||
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singular | plural | |||
inclusive | exclusive | |||
1st person | tafatum | mafatum | afatum | |
2nd person | nafatum | fafatum | ||
3rd person | inanimate | ifatum | dafatum | |
animate | ||||
imperative | nafatum, fatum | fafatum, fatum |
References edit
- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[1], Pacific linguistics