Where does “fatality” come from?
Fatality comes from French fatalité, from Late Latin fatalitas, meaning the quality of being determined by fate.
fatality (English): The state proceeding from destiny; invincible...
Definitions
- The state proceeding from destiny; invincible...
Ancestry of “fatality”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | fatalité | fatality |
| 2 | Latin | fatalitas | — |
| 3 | Latin | fatalis | of fate, destined, predestined; fatal, deadly |
| 4 | Latin | fātum | destiny, fate, lot |
| 5 | Latin | fātus | spoken, said, told, foretold, related, predicted; having or had spoken, etc |
| 6 | Latin | for | "defective"; I speak, talk, say |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | fāōr | speak |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰéh₂ti | to speak, to be talking |