"fortune (wealth; fate)" in seven languages
Meaningfortune (wealth; fate)
Spanish
fortuna
/foɾˈtuna/
fem.learned
French
fortune
/fɔʁtyn/
fem.learned
Italian
fortuna
/forˈtuna/
fem.learned
Also plain 'luck': per fortuna 'luckily'.
Portuguese
fortuna
/fohˈtunɐ/
fem.learned
Romanian
avere
/aˈvere/
fem.other source · avea 'to have' (Latin HABĒRE)
Avere is wealth only; fortune as fate is soartă or noroc.
Catalan
fortuna
/furˈtunə/
fem.learned
English
fortune
/ˈfɔɹtʃən/
from Latin/French · Old French fortune, Latin FORTŪNAM
English → Italianfortune (wealth; fate)fortunaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
FORTŪNAM‘chance, luck; the goddess Fortuna’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Fortuna was the goddess of chance. Italian fortuna is everyday 'luck', while French fortune leans to 'wealth' and luck is chance.
English relatives: fortunate, unfortunately
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In a sentence
- esHizo una fortuna vendiendo coches.
- frIl a fait fortune en vendant des voitures.
- itHa fatto una fortuna vendendo auto.
- ptEle fez fortuna vendendo carros.
- roA făcut avere vânzând mașini.
- caVa fer una fortuna venent cotxes.
- enHe made a fortune selling cars.