fortuito

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /forˈtu.i.to/
• Rhymes: -uito
• Hyphenation: for‧tù‧i‧to

Adjective

fortuito (feminine fortuita, masculine plural fortuiti, feminine plural fortuite)

1. (relational) chance; accidental, fortuitous, casual

   Synonyms: accidentale, casuale

Derived terms

• fortuitamente

Latin

Etymology

From forte (“by chance”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /for.tuˈiː.toː/, [fɔrt̪uˈiːt̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /for.tuˈi.to/, [fort̪uˈiːt̪o]

Adverb

fortuītō (not comparable)

1. by chance, accidentally, by accident, casually

   Synonym: forte

2. fortuitously

Related terms

• fors
• forsan
• forsit
• forsitan
• fortasse
• fortassis
• forte
• fortuītus
• fortūna

References

• “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
    
• Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin fortuītus.

Pronunciation

 

• (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]

• (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/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fuɾˈtuj.tu/

• Hyphenation: for‧tui‧to

Adjective

fortuito (feminine fortuita, masculine plural fortuitos, feminine plural fortuitas)

1. fortuitous (happening by chance, not necessarily a lucky one)

Related terms

• fortuitamente

Further reading

• “fortuito”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “fortuito”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin fortuītus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /foɾˈtwito/ [foɾˈt̪wi.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ito
• Syllabification: for‧tui‧to

Adjective

fortuito (feminine fortuita, masculine plural fortuitos, feminine plural fortuitas)

1. 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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Derived terms

• caso fortuito
• fortuitamente

Further reading

• “fortuito”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10