Etymology

fortuit

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Today it means: Fortuitous. Full definition →

Middle French fortuit ← Latin fortuitus
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromfortuitus
  2. Middle French · borrowed fromfortuit
  3. English todayfortuit

Borrowed from Middle French fortuit, from Latin fortuitus.

Words from the same roots

Latinfortuitus all →

fortuity

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.