fate

See also: Fate

English

Etymology

From Latin fata (“prediction”), plural of fatum, from fatus (“spoken”), from for (“to speak”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /feɪt/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪt

Noun

fate (countable and uncountable, plural fates)

  1. 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 639762314, page 0105:
      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.
  2. The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
  3. Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
    Accept your fate.
  4. (mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).

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Verb

fate (third-person singular simple present fates, present participle fating, simple past and past participle fated)

  1. (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.

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Italian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈfaː.t̪e], /ˈfate/
  • Hyphenation: fà‧te

Verb

fate

  1. second-person plural indicative present of fare
  2. second-person plural imperative of fare

Noun

fate f

  1. plural of fata

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Latin

Participle

fate

  1. vocative masculine singular of fatus

Volapük

Noun

fate

  1. dative singular of fat

Yamdena

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Etymology

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Numeral

fate

  1. Alternative form of fat
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