FromLatininfortunium. Seein-(“not”), andfortune.
infortune (usuallyuncountable,pluralinfortunes)
- (obsolete)misfortune
infortune (third-person singular simple presentinfortunes,present participleinfortuning,simple past and past participleinfortuned)
- Toafflict
- (astrology, of a planet) To have amaligninfluence
infortune f (pluralinfortunes)
- misfortune
1640,Pierre Corneille,Horace, act I, scene I:C’en est peut-être assez pour une âme commune / Qui du moindre péril se fait uneinfortune- That is enough, perhaps, for a soul of common sort / Who considers asmisfortune the smallest danger
1837, Louis Viardot,L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, translation ofEl ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Volume I, Chapter XXIX:Ce fut au fond des leurs [leurs âmes] que ceux qui avaient écouté le récit de sesinfortunes ressentirent l’étonnement et la compassion qu’elle inspirait.- It happened in the bottom of theirs [their souls] that those that had listened to the narrative of hermisfortunes felt the astonishment and compassion that she inspired.
infortune (pluralinfortunes)
- misfortune
