Meanings
adjectivefortuit (comparative more fortuit, superlative most fortuit)
comparative more fortuit · superlative most fortuit
- obsoleteFortuitous.
And so for false fears and all other fortuit inconveniences, mischances, calamities, to resist and prepare ourselves, not to faint is best […].
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 5
Origin
- Latinfortuitus
- Middle Frenchfortuit
- Englishfortuit
Borrowed from Middle French fortuit, from Latin fortuitus.
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