fortunatus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of fortūnō (“make prosperous”)

Pronunciation

Adjective

fortūnātus (feminine fortūnāta, neuter fortūnātum, comparative fortūnātior, superlative fortūnātissimus, adverb fortūnātē); first/second-declension adjective

  1. blessed, prosperous, lucky, fortunate
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.437–438:
      “Ō fortūnātī, quōrum iam moenia surgunt!”
      Aenēās ait, et fastīgia suspicit urbis.
      “Oh fortunate [ones], whose walls already rise!” Aeneas cries, while gazing at the rooftops of the city.
  2. well off, wealthy, rich

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative fortūnātus fortūnāta fortūnātum fortūnātī fortūnātae fortūnāta
Genitive fortūnātī fortūnātae fortūnātī fortūnātōrum fortūnātārum fortūnātōrum
Dative fortūnātō fortūnātō fortūnātīs
Accusative fortūnātum fortūnātam fortūnātum fortūnātōs fortūnātās fortūnāta
Ablative fortūnātō fortūnātā fortūnātō fortūnātīs
Vocative fortūnāte fortūnāta fortūnātum fortūnātī fortūnātae fortūnāta

Descendants
  • French: fortuné
  • Friulian: fortunât
  • Italian: fortunato
  • Ligurian: fortunòu
  • Piedmontese: fortunà

Verb

fortūnātus

  1. perfect participle of fortūnō

Derived terms

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