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Definitions: Fortuna |
FortunaNoun1. The goddess of fortune and good luck; counterpart of Greek Tyche. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Fortuna" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Accompaniment | Phrase: noscitur a sociis; virtutis fortuna comes. |
Courage | Phrase: one's blood being up; courage sans peur;fortes fortuna adjuvat; "have I not in my time heard lions roar "; " I dare do all that may become a man "; male vincetis sed vincite; omne solum forti patria; " self-trust is the essence of heroism "; stimulos dedit oemula virtus; " strong and great, a hero "; teloque animus proestantior omni; "there, is always safety in valor"; virtus ariete fortier. |
Fool | Phrase: fortuna favet fatuis; les fous font les festinas et les sages les mangent; nomina stultorum parietibus harrent; stultorum plena sunt omnia. |
Intrinsicality | Phrase: " character is higher than intellect "; "come give us a taste of your quality " magnos homines virtute metimur non fortuna; non numero haec judicantur sed pondere; " vital spark of heavenly flame ". |
Redundancy | Phrase: it never rains but it pours; fortuna multis dat nimium nulli satis. |
Wealth | Amour fait beaucoup mais argent fait tout; aurea rumpunt tecta quietem; magna servitus ist magna fortuna; "mammon, the least erected spirit that fell from Heaven"; opum furiata cupido; vera prosperita e non aver necessita; wie gewonnen so zerronnen. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Fortuna was propitiated by mothers. Traditionally her cult was introduced to Rome by Servius Tullius.
Fortuna had a temple in the Forum Boarium, a public sanctuary on the Quirinalis, as the tutelary genius of Roma herself (Fortuna Populi Romani the 'Fortune of the Roman people'), and an oracle in Praeneste where the future was chosen by a small boy choosing oak rods with possible futures written on them.
In art, she was portrayed standing in an expensive dress; she was associated with the cornucopia, rudder, ball and blindfold, and the wheel.
All over the Roman world, Fortuna was worshipped at a great number of shrines under various titles that were applied to her according to the various circumstances of life in which her influence was hoped to have a positive effect. Fortuna was not always positive: she was doubtful (Fortuna Dubia); she could be 'fickle fortune' (Fortuna Brevis), or downright evil luck (Fortuna Mala).
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fortuna."
Crosswords: Fortuna |
| English words defined with "Fortuna": Tyche. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Fortuna": Nine Gods ♦ Pagan Works of Art ♦ Wheel of Fortune. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Fortuna": fortunate. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Fortuna" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (Fortune), Italian (chance, emergency, fortune, godsend, luck, luckiness, success), Latin (chance, condition, fate, fortune, luck), Papiamen (fortune), Portuguese (fortune, luck, money exchange, moneybag, star, wealth), Spanish (die, fortune, luck, mercy, pile), Swedish (bagatelle). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Fortuna (1968) La Danza de la fortuna (1961) Fortuna (1940) Notte di fortuna (1940) Mi fortuna por un nieto (1940) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Guide launch FORTUNA setting out the drag Working in approaches to Boston Harbor Wiredrag party of N. H. Heck. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | View of Fortuna Bay on approach to Cyril E. King Airport. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Westend Road overlook of Fortuna Bay. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Preparation of set-lines for fortuna, shark, etc. on the F/V FORTUNA. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | A brain coral split apart by the Fortuna Reefer grounding. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | A healthy stand of Elkhorn coral, Acropora palmatta, typically found at the reef prior to the Fortuna Reefer grounding. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Fortuna, Goelet Cup Race. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Fortuna. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Child of Fortuna family, Hammond, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Travel | Costa Rica | Regional airports offer regularly scheduled domestic flights to Golfito, La Fortuna, Liberia, Samara, Tambor, Tortuguero, Puerto Jimenez, Punta Islita, Nosara, Quepos and Tamarindo. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Fortuna" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 81.82% of the time. "Fortuna" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 81.82% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (singular) | 18.18% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Fortuna" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Fortuna | Last name | 1,000 | 9,449 |
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1. Fortuna, CA (city, FIPS 25296) 2. Fortuna, MO 3. Fortuna, ND (city, FIPS 27820) |
Expressions using "Fortuna": fortuna favet fatuis ♦ Fortuna Foothills ♦ fortuna multis dat nimium nulli satis ♦ Playa Fortuna ♦ virtutis fortuna comes. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Fortuna": fortunate, fortunately, fortunateness, fortunatenesses. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Fortuna": unfortunate, unfortunately, unfortunates. (additional references) | |
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"Fortuna" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Farkunda, fortana, Fortini, Fortino, Fortuin, fortunam, Frolunda, Furzton, Kortunov, Ortona, Tortona, Tortuga. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-n-o-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: outran. | |
-2 letters: fount, front, furan, futon, trona. | |
-3 letters: aunt, auto, fano, faro, fart, faun, font, fora, fort, four, frat, nota, raft, rant, rato, roan, rota, rout, runt, tarn, taro, tofu, tora, torn, tour, tufa, tuna, turf, turn, unto. | |
-4 letters: aft, ant, arf, art, fan, far, fat, fon, for, fou, fro, fun, fur, nor, not. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-n-o-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: turbofan. | |
+2 letters: fortunate, furcation, turbofans. | |
+3 letters: figuration, fluorinate, furcations, nitrofuran, refutation, unfavorite. | |
+4 letters: anfractuous, bifurcation, cofeaturing, figurations, fluorinated, fluorinates, formulating, formulation, fortunately, frustration, fulguration, functionary, infuriation, insufflator, manufactory, nitrofurans, refutations, transfusion, unfortunate. | |
+5 letters: amentiferous, autografting, bifurcations, confabulator, cosurfactant, fluoridating, fluoridation, fluorinating, fluorination, formulations, frustrations, fulgurations, infuriations, insufflators, purification, putrefaction, refoundation, titaniferous, transfusions, trifurcation, unformulated, unfortunates, unprofitable, unprofitably. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 6F 72 74 75 6E 61 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. --- .-. - ..- -. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01101111 01110010 01110100 01110101 01101110 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F o r t u n a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 006F 0072 0074 0075 006E 0061 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40818486878067 |
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