fortuit
See also: fortuït
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Middle French fortuit, from Latin fortuitus.
Adjective
[edit]fortuit (comparative more fortuit, superlative most fortuit)
- (obsolete) Fortuitous.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 5:
- And so for false fears and all other fortuit inconveniences, mischances, calamities, to resist and prepare ourselves, not to faint is best […].
French
[edit]Adjective
[edit]fortuit (feminine fortuite, masculine plural fortuits, feminine plural fortuites)
- fortuitous (happening by chance, by fortune)
Further reading
[edit]- “fortuit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French fortuit, from Latin fortuitus.
Adjective
[edit]fortuit m or n (feminine singular fortuită, masculine plural fortuiți, feminine and neuter plural fortuite)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | fortuit | fortuită | fortuiți | fortuite | |||
| definite | fortuitul | fortuita | fortuiții | fortuitele | ||||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | fortuit | fortuite | fortuiți | fortuite | |||
| definite | fortuitului | fortuitei | fortuiților | fortuitelor | ||||
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