fatum

From fātus, perfect active participle of for (“speak”).

Compare typologically Russian рок (rok) (< Proto-Slavic *rokъ, akin to *reťi).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfaː.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfaː.t̪um]

fātum n (genitive fātī); second declension

1. destiny, fate, lot

   Synonyms: fortūna, sors, necessitās

   alicuius fatum est/ alicui fatum est + infinitive ― someone is fated to ...

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.1–3:

     Arma virumque canō, Trōiae quī prīmus ab ōrīs
     Ītaliam, fātō profugus, Lāvīniaque vēnit
     lītora, [...].

     I sing of arms and a man, exiled by fate, who first came from the coasts of Troy to Italy and the shores of Lavinium.
     (Here, “by fate” [fātō] is an ablative of cause, meaning “because of,” or “on account of.” The epic of Aeneas and his band of refugees begins: divine fate compels their actions and will propel the story. See: Aeneid, Troy, Italy, Lavinium.)

2. (in the plural) death

   Synonyms: mors, fūnus, exitus, perniciēs, interitus, somnus, fīnis, sopor

3. (of a god) speech
4. utterance, declaration, proclamation, prediction, prophecy

   Synonyms: praedictiō, praedictum, prophētīa

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.481–482:

     sīc erat in fātīs; nec tē tua culpa fugāvit, sed deus

     Thus it was in the prophecies: no fault of yours has exiled you, but a god.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• Fāta
• fātidicus
• fātifer
• fātiloquus

• fātus

fātum

1. inflection of fātus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

• “fatum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fatum in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• “fatum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fatum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

fatum

1. dative plural of fæt

Learned borrowing from Latin fātum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.tum/

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• Rhymes: -atum
• Syllabification: fa‧tum

fatum n

1. destiny, fate, doom, jinx

• fatum in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• fatum in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from Latin fatum.

fatum n (uncountable)

1. fate

From Latin fatum.

• IPA^(key): /fǎːtum/
• Hyphenation: fa‧tum

fátum m inan (Cyrillic spelling фа́тум)

1. fate, destiny

• “fatum”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

May be the same as West Makian fatung (“to sniff”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɸa.t̪um/

fatum

1. (transitive) to smell (something)

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics