# fortunate
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English fortunat(e) (“fortunate”), from Latin fortūnātus, from fortūna (“fortune, luck”) +‎ -ātus (adjective-forming suffix), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). See also Middle English fortunaten (“to assure the success (of), make fortunate”); cognate with French fortuné (“lucky”).By surface analysis, fortune +‎ -ate.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈfɔː.t͡ʃə.nɪt/, /ˈfɔː.t͡ʃə.nət/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nɪt/, /ˈfɔɹt͡ʃ.nɪt/
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* (General American, weak vowel merger) IPA: /ˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nət/, /ˈfɔɹt͡ʃ.nət/
* Hyphenation: for‧tu‧nate

### Adjective

fortunate (comparative more fortunate, superlative most fortunate)
* Auspicious.
    It is a fortunate sign if the sun shines on a newly wedded couple.
** 1854, Edward Stanley, A Familiar History of Birds : Their Nature, Habits and Instincts‎, page 144:if it sits still, with its breast towards them, till they have passed, they consider it as a fortunate sign, and everything is expected to go on well during the remainder of their journey
* Happening by good luck or favorable chance.
    Patrick was the unlikely match-winner as Berkeley earned a fortunate victory over Chisolm.
** 2011, George G. Szpiro, Pricing the Future: Finance, Physics, and the 300-year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation‎:How many lucky winners, Regnault lamented, boastfully ascribe their success to wise decisions while in reality their triumph was nothing more than the fortunate outcome of random events?
** 2018 July 11, “How Nina Weiner turns dreams into a reality”, in The Jerusalem Post:Weiner acknowledges that a stroke of good luck has helped steer her to a more fortunate path early on in life.
* Favored by fortune.
    We were fortunate not to be fined for speeding.
    This is a time when we think of those less fortunate than ourselves.

#### Synonyms

* (auspicious): rosy; see also Thesaurus:auspicious
* (happening by favorable chance): lucky; see also Thesaurus:lucky
* (favored by fortune): privileged, successful; see also Thesaurus:prosperous

#### Antonyms

* unlucky
* unfortunate

#### Derived terms

* fortunately
* fortunateness
* misfortunate
* superfortunate
* unfortunately

#### Translations

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### See also

* unluckily
* luckily

### References

* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “fortunate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “fortunate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

## Italian
### Adjective

fortunate
* feminine plural of fortunato

## Latin
### Etymology

From fortūnātus (“fortunate, prosperous”).

### Adverb

fortūnātē (comparative fortūnātius, superlative fortūnātissimē)
* prosperously, fortunately

#### Related terms

* fortūnātus
* fortūnō

### References

* “fortunate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “fortunate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* fortunate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)