fatidic

From Latin fātidicus, from fātum (“fate”) + dico (“I speak”). Via Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- cognate with the synonymous English prophetic.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /feɪˈtɪdɪk/

fatidic (comparative more fatidic, superlative most fatidic)

1. (now rare) Of or pertaining to prophecy; prophetic.

   Synonyms: foreordained, predestined; see also Thesaurus:fated

   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 112:

     At that moment he felt quite proud of his stratagem. He was to recall it with a fatidic shiver seventeen years later [...].

Borrowed from French fatidique, from Latin fātidicus.

fatidic m or n (feminine singular fatidică, masculine plural fatidici, feminine and neuter plural fatidice)

1. fateful