Definitions and meaning of fate
fate
English
Etymology
From Middle English fate, from Latin fāta (“prediction”), plural of fātum, from fātus (“spoken”), from for (“to speak”). In this sense, displaced native Old English wyrd, whence Modern English weird.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /feɪt/
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- Rhymes: -eɪt
Noun
fate (countable and uncountable, plural fates)
- The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
- Synonyms: destiny, natural order
- Antonym: free will
- The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
- An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
- Synonym: destiny
- Antonyms: accident, chance
- Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
- Synonyms: doom, portion, wyrd; see also Thesaurus:fate
- Antonyms: fortune, luck
- (mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).
- (biochemistry) The products of a chemical reaction in their final form in the biosphere.
- (embryology) The mature endpoint of a region, group of cells or individual cell in an embryo, including all changes leading to that mature endpoint
- Synonym: developmental pathway
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- determinism
- indeterminism
Verb
fate (third-person singular simple present fates, present participle fating, simple past and past participle fated)
- (transitive) To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
Usage notes
- In some uses this may imply it causes the inevitable event.
Translations
References
- (embryology) J.M.W. Slack (1991) “The concepts of experimental embryology”, in From Egg to Embryo, 2 edition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 32
Anagrams
- TAFE, feat., TFAE, EFTA, atef, feat, feta
Albanian
Noun
fate
- indefinite nominative/accusative plural of fat
Fataluku
Numeral
fate
- four
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfa.te/
- Rhymes: -ate
- Hyphenation: fà‧te
Etymology 1
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
fate
- inflection of fare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
fate f
- plural of fata
Anagrams
Latin
Participle
fāte
- vocative masculine singular of fātus
Murui Huitoto
Etymology
Cognates include Minica Huitoto fate and Nüpode Huitoto patde.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɸatɛ]
- Hyphenation: fa‧te
Verb
fate
- (transitive) to hit
- (intransitive) to hit
Conjugation
References
- Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)[2] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 84
- Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.[3], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 130
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
fate (present tense fatar, past tense fata, past participle fata, passive infinitive fatast, present participle fatande, imperative fate/fat)
- alternative form of fata
Anagrams
Scots
Pronunciation
Noun
fate
- feat
- fate
Spanish
Verb
fate
- inflection of far:
- second-person singular imperative combined with te
- second-person singular voseo imperative combined with te
Volapük
Noun
fate
- dative singular of fat
Yamdena
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *ǝpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ǝpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Sǝpat.
Numeral
fate
- alternative form of fat
Source: wiktionary.org