Fortunaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [fɔrˈtuː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [forˈtuː.na]

名詞

fortūna f (genitive fortūnae); first declension

1. fortune, luck
2. good fortune; misfortune (depending on context)
   • (Can we date this quote by Virgil and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?) Vergilius, Aeneis, Book V, line 710

     Superanda omnis fortuna ferendo est.

     All misfortune is to be overcome by enduring.

   • (Can we date this quote by Virgil and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?) Vergilius, Aeneis, Book X, lines 42-43

     Speravimus ista, dum fortuna fuit.

     Such we hoped, while good fortune was.

3. destiny, fate

   Synonyms: fātum, sors, necessitās

4. prosperity
5. (in the plural) possessions
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico 1.11:

     Quibus rebus adductus Caesar non expectandum sibi statuit dum, omnibus fortunis sociorum consumptis, in Santonos Helvetii pervenirent.

     Caesar, induced by these circumstances, decides that he ought not to wait until the Helvetii, after destroying all the property of his allies, should arrive among the Santones.

   Synonyms: bonum, rēs

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生語

• fortūnō

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参照

Further reading

• “fortuna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fortuna”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "fortuna", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “fortuna”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the position of the lower classes: condicio ac fortuna hominum infimi generis
    
  • to be fortunate, lucky: fortuna secunda uti
    
  • to be favoured by Fortune; to bask in Fortune's smiles: fortunae favore or prospero flatu fortunae uti (vid. sect. VI. 8., note uti...)
    
  • to be favoured by Fortune; to bask in Fortune's smiles: fortunam fautricem nancisci
    
  • Fortune makes men shortsighted, infatuates them: fortuna caecos homines efficit, animos occaecat
    
  • to try one's luck: fortunam tentare, experiri
    
  • to run a risk; to tempt Providence: fortunam periclitari (periculum facere)
    
  • to trust to luck: fortunae se committere
    
  • to have success in one's grasp: fortunam in manibus habere
    
  • to let success slip through one's fingers: fortunam ex manibus dimittere
    
  • luck is changing, waning: fortuna commutatur, se inclinat
    
  • the plaything of Fortune: ludibrium fortunae
    
  • Fortune's favourite: is, quem fortuna complexa est
    
  • to be abandoned by good luck: a fortuna desertum, derelictum esse
    
  • Fortune exalts a man, makes him conspicuous: fortuna aliquem effert
    
  • misfortune, adversity: fortuna adversa
    
  • to struggle with adversity: conflictari (cum) adversa fortuna
    
  • the vicissitudes of fortune: fortunae vicissitudines
    
  • to experience the vicissitudes of fortune; to have a chequered career: varia fortuna uti
    
  • to be exposed to the assaults of fate: fortunae telis propositum esse
    
  • to be abandoned to fate: fortunae obiectum esse
    
  • to be a victim of the malice of Fortune: ad iniurias fortunae expositum esse
    
  • to acquiesce in one's fate: fortunae cedere
    
  • to be in the enjoyment of a large fortune: fortunis maximis ornatum esse
    
  • I am discontented with my lot: fortunae meae me paenitet
    
  • to drive a person out of house and home: exturbare aliquem omnibus fortunis, e possessionibus
    
  • to drive a person out of house and home: evertere aliquem bonis, fortunis patriis
    
  • to take up one's abode in a place, settle down somewhere: sedem ac domicilium (fortunas suas) constituere alicubi
    
  • a degraded, servile condition: infima fortuna or condicio servorum
    
• “fortuna”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fortuna”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929), Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
• “fortuna”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray