From*fortu-(“chance, luck, fortune”) +‎-ītus(adjective-forming suffix). Derived from an unattested u-stem action noun*fortus built on the root offors(“chance, luck”) (reconstructed asProto-Indo-European*bʰer-) + the action noun suffix*-tus; an u-stem formation also seems to be behindfortūna(“fortune, luck, destiny”).^[1] Compare the formation ofgrātuītus.

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): [fɔr.tuˈiː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): [for.tuˈiː.tus]

fortuītus (femininefortuīta,neuterfortuītum,adverbfortuītō);first/second-declension adjective

1. happening bychance,accidental,random,fortuitous

First/second-declension adjective.

• Catalan:fortuït
• English:fortuitous
• French:fortuit
• Italian:fortuito
• Portuguese:fortuito
• Spanish:fortuito
• Translingual:Mycobacterium fortuitum

• “fortuitus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fortuitus”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fortuitus”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• fortuitus inRamminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)),Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• Charlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)

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