fate

See also: Fate and fă-te

English

Etymology

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/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪt

Noun

fate (countable and uncountable, plural fates)

1. The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     Captain Edward Carlisle […] felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, […]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.

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

   Accept your fate.

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.
   • 2019 July 12, Danielle Freeman, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution‎^[1], retrieved 2 August 2022:

     It’s important to research chemical fate because chemical fate is the best tool we have for understanding and managing human health risks or environmental damage caused by chemical release.

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

Synonyms

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• destiny
• doom
• fortune
• kismet
• lot
• necessity
• orlay
• predestination
• wyrd

Antonyms

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• choice
• free will
• freedom
• chance

Derived terms

• as fate would have it
• cheat fate
• fatal
• fatalism
• fatality
• fated
• fate-fraught
• fateful
• fate map
• fickle finger of fate
• fucked by the fickle finger of fate
• quirk of fate
• red string of fate
• seal someone's fate
• sure as fate
• tempt fate
• twist of fate

 

Related terms

• amor fati (Amor fati)

Translations

that which predetermines events

• Albanian: gullmë (sq) f, fat (sq) m

  Arbëreshë: psorë m

• Arabic: قِسْمَة f (qisma), مَصِير m (maṣīr), قَدَر (ar) m (qadar), تَقْدِير (ar) m (taqdīr)

  Hijazi Arabic: مَصِير m (maṣīr), قَدَر m (gadar), نَصيب m (naṣīb), قِسْمَة f (gisma)

• Armenian: ճակատագիր (hy) (čakatagir), բախտ (hy) (baxt)
• Aromanian: soarti f, soarte f, lahno, mirã, nãfãcã, scriatã, tihi, ursitã
• Azerbaijani: qədər (az), bəxt (az), nəsib, tale (az)
• Bashkir: яҙмыш (yaźmış)
• Basque: halabehar (eu)
• Belarusian: лёс m (ljos), до́ля f (dólja)
• Bengali: ভাগ্য (bn) (bhaggo), নসীব (bn) (nośib), নিয়তি (bn) (niẏoti)
• Bulgarian: съдба́ (bg) f (sǎdbá), у́част (bg) f (účast), о́рис (bg) f (óris)
• Burmese: ကြမ္မာ (my) (kramma)
• Carpathian Rusyn: судьба f (sudʹba), доля f (dolja), осуд m (osud)
• Catalan: destí (ca) m, fat (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎢᏳᏓᎵᏍᏓᏁᏗ (iyudalisdanedi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 命運／命运 (zh) (mìngyùn), 氣數／气数 (zh) (qìshu), 宿命 (zh) (sùmìng), 運命／运命 (zh) (yùnmìng)

• Czech: osud (cs) m, úděl (cs) m
• Dalmatian: suart
• Danish: skæbne c
• Dutch: lot (nl) n, beschikking (nl) f
• Esperanto: sorto (eo), destino, fatalo
• Estonian: saatus
• Faroese: lagna f
• Finnish: kohtalo (fi)
• French: destin (fr) m, destinée (fr) f, sort (fr) m
• Friulian: fât, destìn, sorte
• Galician: destino m, sorte f
• Georgian: ბედი (bedi), ბედისწერა (bedisc̣era)
• German: Schicksal (de) n, Los (de) n, Geschick (de) n
• Greek: μοίρα (el) f (moíra), ειμαρμένη (el) f (eimarméni), πεπρωμένο (el) n (peproméno), τύχη (el) f (týchi), ριζικό (el) n (rizikó)

  Ancient: μοῖρα f (moîra)

• Gujarati: નસીબ (gu) n (nasīb), કિસ્મત (kismat), તકદીર (gu) (takdīr), ભાગ્ય n (bhāgya), મુકદ્દર n (mukaddar), કરમ (gu) (karam)
• Hebrew: מַזָּל (he) m (mazal), גּוֹרָל (he) m (gorál)
• Hindi: क़िस्मत f (qismat), किस्मत (hi) f (kismat), नसीब (hi) m (nasīb), तक़दीर f (taqdīr), तकदीर (hi) f (takdīr), भाग्य (hi) m (bhāgya), विधि (hi) f (vidhi), नियति (hi) f (niyti), लेख (hi) m (lekh), कर्म (hi) m (karm), करम (hi) m (karam), नसीब (hi) m (nasīb), मुक़द्दर m (muqaddar), मुकद्दर (hi) m (mukaddar), भाग (hi) m (bhāg)
• Hungarian: sors (hu)
• Icelandic: örlög (is) n pl
• Irish: cinniúint (ga) f
• Istriot: suorto
• Italian: fato (it), sorte (it), destino (it) m
• Japanese: 運命 (ja) (うんめい, unmei), 宿命 (ja) (しゅくめい, shukumei)
• Kazakh: тағдыр (tağdyr), пешене (peşene), жазмыш (jazmyş)
• Khmer: កម្ម (km) (kam), គំនូស (km) (kumnuuh), ជោគវាសនា (cook viəhsnaa)
• Korean: 운명(運命) (ko) (unmyeong), 숙명(宿命) (ko) (sungmyeong)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: چارەنووس (çarenûs)

  Northern Kurdish: çarenivîs (ku), qeder (ku), qismet (ku), nesîb (ku)

• Kyrgyz: тагдыр (ky) (tagdır)
• Lao: ກັມແລະເວນ (kam læ wēn), ກັມ (kam), ກະເຍີມ (ka nyœ̄m)
• Latin: fatum n, sors (la), fatus m, pars (la) f
• Latvian: liktenis (lv) m
• Lithuanian: likimas (lt) m
• Macedonian: судбина f (sudbina)
• Malay: nasib (ms), takdir (ms)
• Malayalam: വിധി (ml) (vidhi), തലയിലെഴുത്ത് (ml) (talayileḻuttŭ)
• Mizo: khúarèl, (literary) khúaléng
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хувь тавилан (xuvʹ tavilan), хувь зохиол (xuvʹ zoxiol), хувь заяа (xuvʹ zajaa), мөхөл (mn) (möxöl), үхэл (mn) (üxel), заяа тавилан (zajaa tavilan)

• Norman: destinné f, sort m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skjebne (no) m

  Nynorsk: lagnad (nn) m

• Occitan: sòrt (oc)
• Old English: wyrd f
• Pashto: قسمت (ps) m (qəsmát)
• Persian: سرنوشت (fa) (sarnevešt), تقدیر (fa) (taqdir), قسمت (fa) (qesmat)
• Plautdietsch: Schikjsol n
• Polish: los (pl) m, dola (pl) f, przeznaczenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: destino (pt) m, fado (pt)
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਲੇਖ m (lekh), ਕ਼ਿਸਮਤ f (qismat), ਤਕ਼ਦੀਰ f (taqdīr)

  Shahmukhi: لیکھ m (lekh), قِسْمَت f (qismat), تَقْدِیر f (taqdīr)

• Romanian: soartă (ro), destin (ro)
• Romansch: destin, sort
• Russian: судьба́ (ru) f (sudʹbá), до́ля (ru) f (dólja), у́часть (ru) f (účastʹ), рок (ru) m (rok), уде́л (ru) m (udél), фа́тум (ru) m (fátum)
• Sanskrit: भाग्य (sa) (bhāgya), दैव (sa) (daiva), नियति (sa) (niyati), अदृष्ट (sa) (adṛṣṭa)
• Sardinian: solte, solte, solti, sorti
• Scots: weird
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: у̀суд m, су̏дбина f, су̀дба f

  Roman: ùsud (sh) m, sȕdbina (sh) f, sùdba (sh) f

• Sicilian: fatu m, distinu (scn) m, sorti
• Slovak: osud m
• Slovene: usoda (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: pśisud m, pśisuźenje n, kjabel m

• Spanish: destino (es) m, azar (es) m
• Swahili: majaliwa (sw)
• Swedish: öde (sv) n
• Tagalog: tadhana
• Tajik: сарнавишт (tg) (sarnavišt), бахт (baxt), толеъ (toleʾ), насиба (nasiba), оянда (tg) (oyanda), қисмат (qismat)
• Tatar: язмыш (tt) (yazmış)
• Thai: ดวง (th) (duuang), โชคชะตา (th) (chôok-chá-dtaa), พรหมลิขิต (th) (prom-lí-kìt), กรรม (th) (gam), ชะตา (th) (chá-dtaa)
• Tibetan: ལས (las), སྐལ་ལས (skal las), སྔོན་ལས (sngon las)
• Turkish: alın yazısı (tr), yazgı (tr), kader (tr)
• Turkmen: takdyr, täleý, nesibe, ykbal
• Ukrainian: до́ля (uk) f (dólja), льос m (lʹos) (dated), тала́н m (talán)
• Urdu: قسمت f (qismat), تقدیر f (taqdīr), مقدر (muqadar)
• Uyghur: تەقدىر (teqdir)
• Uzbek: taqdir (uz), nasiba (uz), qismat (uz)
• Venetian: sorte f, sort f, destìn
• Vietnamese: số phận (vi) (數分), số mạng (數命), vận mệnh (vi) (運命)
• Welsh: tynged (cy) m or f
• Yakut: дьылҕа (jılğa), төлкө (tölkö), анал (anal)
• Yiddish: גורל m (goyrl)
• Zazaki: qeder, qısmet, nasib n, teqdir c or n, nuşıte n, suhud n

inevitable events

• Armenian: բախտ (hy) (baxt), ճակատագիր (hy) (čakatagir)
• Catalan: fat (ca) m
• Czech: osud (cs) m
• Dutch: lot (nl) n
• Esperanto: sorto (eo)
• Finnish: kohtalo (fi)
• Galician: destino m, fado m
• Greek: τύχη (el) f (týchi), μοίρα (el) f (moíra), πεπρωμένο (el) n (peproméno)
• Hebrew: מַזָּל (he) m (mazal), גּוֹרָל (he) m (gorál)
• Indonesian: nasib (id)
• Italian: destino (it) m, fato (it) m
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: چارەنووس (çarenûs)

• Latin: fatum n, sors (la)
• Macedonian: судбина f pl (sudbina)
• Malayalam: വിധി (ml) (vidhi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skjebne (no) m

  Nynorsk: skjebne m

• Portuguese: sina (pt) f
• Russian: судьба́ (ru) f (sudʹbá), до́ля (ru) f (dólja), у́часть (ru) f (účastʹ), рок (ru) m (rok)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: у̀суд m, су̏дбина f, су̀дба f

  Roman: ùsud (sh) m, sȕdbina (sh) f, sùdba (sh) f

• Swahili: majaliwa (sw)
• Tibetan: བསྐོས་ཐང (bskos thang), སྐལ་ལས (skal las), སྔོན་ལས (sngon las)
• Venetian: sòrt (vec) f
• Vietnamese: vận mệnh (vi) (運命)

destiny

• Arabic: قِسْمَة f (qisma), مَصِير m (maṣīr), قَدَر (ar) m (qadar)

  Hijazi Arabic: مَصِير m (maṣīr), قَدَر m (gadar), نَصيب m (naṣīb), قِسْمَة f (gisma)

• Armenian: ճակատագիր (hy) (čakatagir)
• Bashkir: яҙмыш (yaźmış)
• Basque: adur (eu), zori
• Belarusian: лёс m (ljos)
• Bulgarian: съдба́ (bg) f (sǎdbá), у́част (bg) f (účast), о́рис (bg) f (óris)
• Burmese: နဖူးစာ (my) (na.hpu:ca), ဖူးစာ (my) (hpu:ca)
• Catalan: destí (ca) m, planeta (ca) f
• Cherokee: ᎢᏳᏓᎵᏍᏓᏁᏗ (iyudalisdanedi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 命運／命运 (zh) (mìngyùn), 氣數／气数 (zh) (qìshu), 宿命 (zh) (sùmìng), 運命／运命 (zh) (yùnmìng)

• Czech: osud (cs) m
• Danish: skæbne c
• Dutch: lot (nl) n
• Esperanto: destino, sorto (eo)
• Estonian: saatus
• Finnish: kohtalo (fi)
• French: destin (fr) m, destinée (fr) f
• Galician: destino m
• German: Schicksal (de) n
• Greek: μοίρα (el) f (moíra), πεπρωμένο (el) n (peproméno)

  Ancient: μοῖρα f (moîra)

• Hebrew: מַזָּל (he) m (mazal), גּוֹרָל (he) m (gorál)
• Hindi: क़िस्मत f (qismat), किस्मत (hi) f (kismat), नसीब (hi) m (nasīb), तक़दीर f (taqdīr), तकदीर (hi) f (takdīr), भाग्य (hi) m (bhāgya), विधि (hi) f (vidhi), लेख (hi) m (lekh), कर्म (hi) m (karm), करम (hi) m (karam), नसीब (hi) m (nasīb), मुक़द्दर m (muqaddar), मुकद्दर (hi) m (mukaddar), भाग (hi) m (bhāg)
• Hungarian: végzet (hu)
• Icelandic: örlög (is) n pl
• Irish: cinniúint (ga) f
• Italian: destino (it) m, sorte (it) f, fato (it) m
• Japanese: 運命 (ja) (うんめい, unmei), 宿命 (ja) (しゅくめい, shukumei)
• Korean: 숙명(宿命) (ko) (sungmyeong), 운명(運命) (ko) (unmyeong)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: چارەنووس (çarenûs), قەزا و قەدەر (qeza û qeder)

• Latin: fatum n, sors (la), fatus m
• Macedonian: судбина f (sudbina), касмет m (kasmet)
• Malayalam: വിധി (ml) (vidhi)
• Maori: ara tātai, mana matatuhi
• Nepali: भाग्य (bhāgya)
• Norman: destinné f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skjebne (no) m

  Nynorsk: skjebne m

• Old English: wyrd f
• Plautdietsch: Schikjsol n
• Polish: los (pl) m, przeznaczenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: fado (pt) m, destino (pt) m, sorte (pt) f
• Romanian: soartă (ro)
• Russian: судьба́ (ru) f (sudʹbá), до́ля (ru) f (dólja), у́часть (ru) f (účastʹ), рок (ru) m (rok), уде́л (ru) m (udél)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: у̀суд m, су̏дбина f, су̀дба f

  Roman: ùsud (sh) m, sȕdbina (sh) f, sùdba (sh) f

• Slovene: usoda (sl) f
• Spanish: destino (es) m, azar (es) m
• Swahili: majaliwa (sw)
• Swedish: öde (sv) n
• Thai: พรหมลิขิต (th) (prom-lí-kìt), โชคชะตา (th) (chôok-chá-dtaa), เทวลิขิต
• Tibetan: དབང་ཐང (dbang thang), ལས་ཀྱི་བསྐོས་ཐང (las kyi bskos thang), ལས (las)
• Ukrainian: до́ля (uk) f (dólja), льос m (lʹos)
• Urdu: قسمت f (qismat), تقدیر f (taqdīr)
• Venetian: sòrt (vec) f
• Vietnamese: vận mệnh (vi) (運命)
• Volapük: fät (vo)
• Welsh: tynged (cy) m or f
• Yiddish: גורל m (goyrl)

goddess

• Esperanto: Fatalo, Fortuno
• Finnish: kohtalotar
• Romanian: ursitoare (ro) f
• Tibetan: རླུང་རྟའི་ལྷ་མོ (rlung rta'i lha mo, literally “goddess of the wind horse, where ‘wind horse’ means fortune/fame/luck”)

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• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} vertrouwen (nl) n
• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} sors (hu)
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} fato, ^{(please verify)} destino, ^{(please verify)} sorte
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} sors (la)

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.

   The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.

   • 2011, James Al-Shamma, Sarah Ruhl: A Critical Study of the Plays, page 119:

     At the conclusion of this part, Eric, who plays Jesus and is now a soldier, captures Violet in the forest, fating her to a concentration camp.

Usage notes

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

Translations

to foreordain, predetermine

• Czech: předurčit pf
• Finnish: määrätä (fi)

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

• EFTA, TAFE, TFAE, feat, feat., feta

Fataluku

Numeral

fate

1. four

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Verb

fate

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

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

Conjugation of fate

Nonfuture indicative					Future indicative
	affirmative		negative			affirmative		negative
	m	f	m	f		m	f	m	f
1st sg	fatɨkue		fañedɨkue		1st sg	faitɨkue		fañeitɨkue
2nd sg	fato		fañedo		2nd sg	faito		fañeito
3rd sg anim1)	fatɨmɨe	fatɨñaiño	fañedɨmɨe	fañedɨñaiño	3rd sg anim1)	faitɨmɨe	faitɨñaiño	fañeitɨmɨe	fañeitɨñaiño
1st du	fatɨkoko	fatɨkaɨñaɨ	fañedɨkoko	fañedɨkaɨñaɨ	1st du	faitɨkoko	faitɨkaɨñaɨ	fañeitɨkoko	fañeitɨkaɨñaɨ
2nd du	fatomɨko	fatomɨñoɨ	fañedomɨko	fañedomɨñoɨ	2nd du	faitomɨko	faitomɨñoɨ	fañeitomɨko	fañeitomɨñoɨ
3rd du anim1)	fataɨmaiaɨ	fataɨñuaɨ	fañedaɨmaiaɨ	fañedaɨñuaɨ	3rd du anim1)	faitaɨmaiaɨ	faitaɨñuaɨ	fañeitaɨmaiaɨ	fañeitaɨñuaɨ
1st pl	fatɨkaɨ		fañedɨkaɨ		1st pl	faitɨkaɨ		fañeitɨkaɨ
2nd pl	fatomoɨ		fañedomoɨ		2nd pl	faitomoɨ		fañeitomoɨ
3rd pl anim1)	fatɨmakɨ		fañedɨmakɨ		3rd pl anim1)	faitɨmakɨ		fañeitɨmakɨ
3rd neut	fate		fañede		3rd neut	faite		fañeite
Imperative			Apprehensive	Future event	Passive		Negative passive		Overlap
simple	immediate	prohibitive			nonfuture	future	nonfuture	future
fano!	fanokai!	fañeno!	faiza!	faye	faga	fayɨ	fañega	fañeyɨ	fakana
Conditional			1) The animate 3rd singular inflections are only used when the animacy of the subject needs to be emphasised. Otherwise, the neutral 3rd singular is used. *) Same-time forms may be formed from any indicative form by adding the ending -mo directly to the inflected form. **) The evidentiality markers -dɨ, -za and -ta may be added to any indicative form.
real	hypothetical	immediate
faia	fana	fakaina

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

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