fortuito
Italian edit
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fortuito (feminine fortuita, masculine plural fortuiti, feminine plural fortuite)
- (relational) chance; accidental, fortuitous, casual
- Synonyms: accidentale, casuale
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References edit
- ^ fortuito in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- ^ fortuito in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From forte (“by chance”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /for.tuˈiː.toː/, [fɔrt̪uˈiːt̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /for.tuˈi.to/, [fort̪uˈiːt̪o]
Adverb edit
fortuītō (not comparable)
- by chance, accidentally, by accident, casually
- Synonym: forte
- fortuitously
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References edit
- “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[1], 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 edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /foʁˈtuj.tu/ [fohˈtuɪ̯.tu], (nonstandard but common) /foʁ.tuˈi.tu/ [foh.tʊˈi.tu], (nonstandard but common, faster pronunciation) /foʁˈtwi.tu/ [fohˈtwi.tu]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /foɾˈtuj.tu/ [foɾˈtuɪ̯.tu], (nonstandard but common) /foɾ.tuˈi.tu/ [foɾ.tʊˈi.tu], (nonstandard but common, faster pronunciation) /foɾˈtwi.tu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /foʁˈtuj.tu/ [foχˈtuɪ̯.tu], (nonstandard but common) /foʁ.tuˈi.tu/ [foχ.tʊˈi.tu], (nonstandard but common, faster pronunciation) /foʁˈtwi.tu/ [foχˈtwi.tu]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /foɻˈtuj.to/ [foɻˈtuɪ̯.to], (nonstandard but common) /foɻ.tuˈi.to/ [foɻ.tʊˈi.to], (nonstandard but common, faster pronunciation) /foɻˈtwi.to/
- Hyphenation: for‧tui‧to
Adjective edit
fortuito (feminine fortuita, masculine plural fortuitos, feminine plural fortuitas)
- fortuitous (happening by chance, not necessarily a lucky one)
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Further reading edit
- “fortuito” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “fortuito” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
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fortuito (feminine fortuita, masculine plural fortuitos, feminine plural fortuitas)
- by chance, accidental, fortuitous, casual
- 2023 May 25, Federico Rivas Molina, “El lento pero persistente declive del kirchnerismo”, in El País[2]:
- El 25 de mayo de 2003, hace exactamente 20 años, Kirchner juraba como presidente, se mezclaba entre la multitud, recibía un corte en el rostro producto de un golpe fortuito con una cámara de fotos y se proclamaba el timonel de una nueva Argentina. Nacía el kirchnerismo.
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Further reading edit
- “fortuito”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014