fortuitus

== Latin == === Etymology === From *fortu- (“chance, luck, fortune”) +‎ -ītus (adjective-forming suffix). Derived from an unattested u-stem action noun *fortus built on the root of fors (“chance, luck”) (reconstructed as Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-) + the action noun suffix *-tus; an u-stem formation also seems to be behind fortūna (“fortune, luck, destiny”). Compare the formation of grātuītus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [fɔr.tuˈiː.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [for.tuˈiː.tus] === Adjective === fortuītus (feminine fortuīta, neuter fortuītum, adverb fortuītō); first/second-declension adjective happening by chance, accidental, random, fortuitous ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Catalan: fortuït English: fortuitous French: fortuit Italian: fortuito Portuguese: fortuito Spanish: fortuito Translingual: Mycobacterium fortuitum === References === === Further reading === “fortuitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “fortuitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “fortuitus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. fortuitus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016 Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)