fate

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English

Etymology

From Middle English fate, 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/
• Rhymes: -eɪt

Noun

fate (countable and uncountable, plural fates)

1. The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.

   Synonyms: destiny, natural order

   Antonym: free will
2. The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
3. An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.

   Synonym: destiny

   Antonyms: accident, chance

4. Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.

   Synonyms: doom, portion, wyrd; see also Thesaurus:fate

   Antonyms: fortune, luck

5. (mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).
6. (biochemistry) The products of a chemical reaction in their final form in the biosphere.
7. (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

Derived terms

Related terms

• amor fati (Amor fati)

Translations

See also

• determinism
• indeterminism

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.

Usage notes

• In some uses this may imply it causes the inevitable event.

Translations

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

Anagrams

• TAFE, feat., TFAE, EFTA, atef, feat, feta

Albanian

Noun

fate

1. indefinite nominative/accusative plural of fat

Fataluku

Numeral

fate

1. four

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.te/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: fà‧te

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

fate

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

fate f

1. plural of fata

Anagrams

• afte

Latin

Participle

fāte

1. vocative masculine singular of fātus

Murui Huitoto

Etymology

Cognates include Minica Huitoto fate and Nüpode Huitoto patde.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɸatɛ]
• Hyphenation: fa‧te

Verb

fate

1. (transitive) to hit
2. (intransitive) to hit

Conjugation

References

• Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎^[2] (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.‎^[3], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 130

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

fate (present tense fatar, past tense fata, past participle fata, passive infinitive fatast, present participle fatande, imperative fate/fat)

1. Alternative form of fata

Anagrams

• EFTA, efta, feta

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /feːt/

Noun

fate

1. feat
2. fate

Spanish

Verb

fate

1. inflection of far:
   1. second-person singular imperative combined with te
   2. second-person singular voseo imperative combined with te

Volapük

Noun

fate

1. dative singular of fat

Yamdena

Alternative forms

• fat

Etymology

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *ǝpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ǝpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Sǝpat.

Numeral

fate

1. Alternative form of fat