Where does “Fata” come from?
Fata (English) comes from Hungarian fáta, from Romanian fată, from Late Latin facia, from Latin faciēs, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor.
Ancestry of “Fata”, step by step
Fata traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Hungarian fáta
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | fáta | Romanian girl |
| 2 | Romanian | fată | girl; daughter |
| 3 | Late Latin | facia | — |
| 4 | Latin | faciēs | make, form, shape, figure, configuration |
| 5 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 6 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 7 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 8 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
via Italian fata
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | fata | fairy |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | Fata | goddess of fate; a goddess of fate |
| 3 | Latin | fātum | destiny, fate, lot |
| 4 | Latin | fātus | spoken, said, told, foretold, related, predicted; having or had spoken, etc |
| 5 | Latin | for | "defective"; I speak, talk, say |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | fāōr | speak |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰéh₂ti | to speak, to be talking |