Fortunatus
See also: fortunatus
Latin
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /for.tuːˈnaː.tus/, [fɔrt̪uːˈnäːt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /for.tuˈna.tus/, [fort̪uˈnäːt̪us]
- Homophone: fortūnātus
Proper noun
Fortūnātus m sg (genitive Fortūnātī); second declension
- A masculine cognomen — famously held by:
- Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus (circa AD 530–600/609): Latin poet, hymnodist, and historian at the court of the Merovingians; bishop of Poitiers; and friend, beneficiary, and defender of Gregory of Tours
- Fortunatus, a legendary young man, who is gifted by Fortune with a bottomless purse.
- 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Talisman, page 98:
- And then followed such a list of estates here, and estates there, mortgages in every county in England, and money vested in the stocks of every known capital—English, French, Russian, and American—that Scott began to think the late Henry Smythe must have been the possessor of Fortunatus's purse.
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| Nominative | Fortūnātus |
| Genitive | Fortūnātī |
| Dative | Fortūnātō |
| Accusative | Fortūnātum |
| Ablative | Fortūnātō |
| Vocative | Fortūnāte |
Descendants
- French: Fortunat
- Italian: Fortunato
- Russian: Фортуна́т (Fortunát)
References
- 2 Fortūnātus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.: “682/2”
Further reading
Venantius Fortunatus on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia la
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