fate
English
Etymology
From Latin fāta (“prediction”), plural of fātum, from fātus (“spoken”), from for (“to speak”). In this sense, displaced native Old English wyrd, whence Modern English weird.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /feɪt/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪt
Noun
fate (countable and uncountable, plural fates)
- The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- Captain Edward Carlisle […] felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, […]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
- The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
- An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
- Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
- Accept your fate.
- (mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).
- (biochemistry) The products of a chemical reaction in their final form in the biosphere.
- (embryology) The mature endpoint of a region, group of cells or individual cell in an embryo, including all changes leading to that mature endpoint
- Synonym: developmental pathway
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Derived terms
Translations
that which predetermines events
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inevitable events
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destiny
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goddess
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See also
Verb
fate (third-person singular simple present fates, present participle fating, simple past and past participle fated)
- (transitive) To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
- The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.
- 2011, James Al-Shamma, Sarah Ruhl: A Critical Study of the Plays, page 119:
- At the conclusion of this part, Eric, who plays Jesus and is now a soldier, captures Violet in the forest, fating her to a concentration camp.
Usage notes
- In some uses this may imply it causes the inevitable event.
References
- (embryology) J.M.W. Slack (1991) “The concepts of experimental embryology”, in From Egg to Embryo, 2 edition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 32
Fataluku
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfa.te/
- Rhymes: -ate
- Hyphenation: fà‧te
Verb
fate
- inflection of fare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Anagrams
Latin
Murui Huitoto
Etymology
Cognates include Minica Huitoto fate and Nüpode Huitoto patde.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɸatɛ]
- Hyphenation: fa‧te
Conjugation
Conjugation of fate
| Nonfuture indicative | Future indicative | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| affirmative | negative | affirmative | negative | ||||||
| m | f | m | f | m | f | m | f | ||
| 1st sg | fatɨkue | fañedɨkue | 1st sg | faitɨkue | fañeitɨkue | ||||
| 2nd sg | fato | fañedo | 2nd sg | faito | fañeito | ||||
| 3rd sg anim1) | fatɨmɨe | fatɨñaiño | fañedɨmɨe | fañedɨñaiño | 3rd sg anim1) | faitɨmɨe | faitɨñaiño | fañeitɨmɨe | fañeitɨñaiño |
| 1st du | fatɨkoko | fatɨkaɨñaɨ | fañedɨkoko | fañedɨkaɨñaɨ | 1st du | faitɨkoko | faitɨkaɨñaɨ | fañeitɨkoko | fañeitɨkaɨñaɨ |
| 2nd du | fatomɨko | fatomɨñoɨ | fañedomɨko | fañedomɨñoɨ | 2nd du | faitomɨko | faitomɨñoɨ | fañeitomɨko | fañeitomɨñoɨ |
| 3rd du anim1) | fataɨmaiaɨ | fataɨñuaɨ | fañedaɨmaiaɨ | fañedaɨñuaɨ | 3rd du anim1) | faitaɨmaiaɨ | faitaɨñuaɨ | fañeitaɨmaiaɨ | fañeitaɨñuaɨ |
| 1st pl | fatɨkaɨ | fañedɨkaɨ | 1st pl | faitɨkaɨ | fañeitɨkaɨ | ||||
| 2nd pl | fatomoɨ | fañedomoɨ | 2nd pl | faitomoɨ | fañeitomoɨ | ||||
| 3rd pl anim1) | fatɨmakɨ | fañedɨmakɨ | 3rd pl anim1) | faitɨmakɨ | fañeitɨmakɨ | ||||
| 3rd neut | fate | fañede | 3rd neut | faite | fañeite | ||||
| Imperative | Apprehensive | Future event | Passive | Negative passive | Overlap | ||||
| simple | immediate | prohibitive | nonfuture | future | nonfuture | future | |||
| fano! | fanokai! | fañeno! | faiza! | faye | faga | fayɨ | fañega | fañeyɨ | fakana |
| Conditional | 1) The animate 3rd singular inflections are only used when the animacy of the subject needs to be emphasised. Otherwise, the neutral 3rd singular is used. *) Same-time forms may be formed from any indicative form by adding the ending -mo directly to the inflected form. **) The evidentiality markers -dɨ, -za and -ta may be added to any indicative form. | ||||||||
| real | hypothetical | immediate | |||||||
| faia | fana | fakaina | |||||||
References
- Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20) (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 84
- Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia., Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 130
Norwegian Nynorsk
Volapük
Yamdena
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *ǝpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ǝpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Sǝpat.
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