suerte
Asturian
Etymology
From Latin sors, sortem.
Noun
suerte f (plural suertes)
- luck (something that happens to someone by chance)
Middle English
Noun
suerte
- alternative form of surete
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish suerte, from Latin sortem, from Proto-Italic *sortis, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind”). Compare Portuguese sorte, Galician sorte.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsweɾte/ [ˈsweɾ.t̪e]
- Rhymes: -eɾte
- Syllabification: suer‧te
Noun
suerte f (plural suertes)
- luck, fortune
- 1998, “El Viento”, in Clandestino, performed by Manu Chao:
- Por la frontera
La suerte viene
La suerte se va- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- lot, fate
- Esta es mi suerte en la vida, y tengo que aceptarla.
- This is my lot in life, and I have to accept it.
- sort, kind, type
- Synonym: tipo
- oracular response
- (bullfighting) stage in a bullfight
- (Latin America) lottery ticket
- Synonym: billete de lotería
- (informal) A small white spot on the nails.
- Synonym: flor
Derived terms
- bambú de la suerte
- buena suerte
- cargar la suerte
- de suerte que
- echar a suertes
- entrar en suerte
- entre gitanos no nos leemos la suerte
- galleta de la suerte
- golpe de suerte
- juego de suerte
- la suerte favorece a los audaces
- mala suerte
- por suerte
- probar suerte
- repetir la suerte
- suerte de banderillas
- suerte de matar
- suerte de principiante
- suerte de varas
- suerte y verdad
- suertudo
- tentar a la suerte
- uvas de la suerte
Related terms
Descendants
Interjection
¡suerte!
Further reading
- “suerte”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /suˈeɾte/ [ˈswɛɾ.t̪ɛ]
- Rhymes: -eɾte
- Syllabification: su‧er‧te
Noun
suerte (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜏᜒᜇ᜔ᜆᜒ)
- Superseded, pre-1977 spelling of suwerte.