suerte
AsturianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin sors, sortem.
NounEdit
suerte f (plural suertes)
- luck (something that happens to someone by chance)
Middle EnglishEdit
NounEdit
suerte
- Alternative form of surete
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Spanish suerte, from Latin sortem, singular accusative of sors, from Proto-Italic *sortis, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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
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DescendantsEdit
InterjectionEdit
¡suerte!
Further readingEdit
- “suerte” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.