fortuit

Borrowed from Middle French fortuit, from Latin fortuitus.

fortuit (comparative more fortuit, superlative most fortuit)

1. (obsolete) Fortuitous.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 5:

     And so for false fears and all other fortuit inconveniences, mischances, calamities, to resist and prepare ourselves, not to faint is best […].

fortuit (feminine fortuite, masculine plural fortuits, feminine plural fortuites)

1. fortuitous (happening by chance, by fortune)

• “fortuit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French fortuit, from Latin fortuitus.

fortuit m or n (feminine singular fortuită, masculine plural fortuiți, feminine and neuter plural fortuite)

1. fortuitous