different between accident vs fortune

English

Etymology

• First attested in the late 14th century. From Middle English, from Old French accident, from Latin accid?ns, present active participle of accid? (“happen”); from ad (“to”) + cad? (“fall”). See cadence, case. In the sense "unintended pregnancy", first attested in 1932.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?æk.s?.d?nt/, /?æk.s?.d?nt/

Noun

accident (countable and uncountable, plural accidents)

1. An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences.
   • c.1603, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice, I-iii,

     Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, / Of moving accidents by flood and field […]

2. (transport, vehicles) Especially, a collision or similar unintended event that causes damage or death.
3. Any chance event.
4. (uncountable) Chance.
   • c.1861-1863, Richard Chevenix Trench, in 1888, Letters and memorials, Volume 1,

     Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident, / It is the very place God meant for thee; […]
5. Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential.
   • 1883, J. P. Mahaffy, Social life in Greece from Homer to Menander,

     This accident, as I call it, of Athens being situated some miles from the sea, which is rather the consequence of its being a very ancient site, […]

6. (euphemistic) An instance of incontinence.
   • 2009, Marcia Stedron, My Roller Coaster Life as an Army Wife, Xlibris Corporation, ?ISBN, page 56:

     We weren’t there long when Karin asked about our dog. When we told her Chris was in the car, she insisted we bring him up to the apartment. I rejected her offer and said he might have an accident on the carpet and I didn’t want to worry about it.

7. (euphemistic) An unintended pregnancy.
9. (philosophy, logic) A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, page 171:

     If they went through their growth-crisis in other faiths and other countries, although the essence of the change would be the same […] , its accidents would be different.

10. (grammar) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case.
    • a 1799, John Parkhurst, A Hebrew and English lexicon without points, page 25

      An adjective, so called because adjectitious, or added to a substantive, denotes some quality or accident of the substantive to which it is joined […]

11. (geology) An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.
12. (geology) A sudden discontinuity of ground such as fault of great thickness, bed or lentil of unstable ground.
13. (heraldry) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
14. (law) casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
15. (uncountable, philosophy, uncommon) Appearance, manifestation.
    • 14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale in The Canterbury Tales,

      These cookes how they stamp, and strain, and grind, / And turne substance into accident, / To fulfill all thy likerous talent!

    • 1677, Heraclitus Christianus: or, the Man of Sorrow, chapter 3, page 14:

      But as to Man, all the Fruits of the Earth, all sorts of Herbs, Plants and Roots, the Fishes of the Sea, and the Birds of the Air do not suffice him, but he must disguise, vary, and sophisticate, change the substance into accident, that by such irritations as these, Nature might be provoked, and as it were necessitated.

Synonyms

• (unexpected event with negative consequences): mishap
• (unexpected event that takes place without foresight or expectation): befalling, chance, contingency, casualty; See also Thesaurus:accident
• (chance): fortune, luck; see also Thesaurus:luck
• (law): casus

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

• Elisabetta Lonati, "Allas, the shorte throte, the tendre mouth": the sins of the mouth in The Canterbury Tales, in Thou sittest at another boke, volume 3 (2008, ISSN 1974-0603), page 253: "the cooks "turnen substance into accident" (Pd 539), transform the raw material, its natural essence, into the outward aspect by which it is known."
• Barbara Fass Leavy, To Blight With Plague: Studies in a Literary Theme (1993), page 47:

  To turn substance into accident is to give external form to what previously was unformed, to transform spirit into matter, to reduce eternal truths to their ephemeral physical manifestations.

Further reading

• accident in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• accident in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• accident at OneLook Dictionary Search

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin accid?ns, present active participle of accid? (“happen”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?k.si?dent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?k.si?den/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ak.si?dent/

Noun

accident m (plural accidents)

1. accident (a chance occurrence)
2. (grammar) accident
3. (music) accidental
4. (logic) accident
5. (transport) accident
6. (geography) feature

Derived terms

• accidentar
• accidentogen

Related terms

• accidental

Further reading

• “accident” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “accident” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “accident” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “accident” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch accident, from Middle French accident.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??k.si?d?nt/
• Hyphenation: ac?ci?dent
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

accident n (plural accidenten, diminutive accidentje n)

1. (philosophy, theology) accidental property
2. (now Belgium) accident

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ak.si.d??/

Noun

accident m (plural accidents)

1. accident

Derived terms

• accident de décompression
• accident de parcours
• accident de travail/accident du travail
• accident vasculaire cérébral
• accidentel
• accidenter

Further reading

• “accident” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Etymology 1

Form of the verb accid? (“I fall down upon”).

Verb

accident

1. third-person plural future active indicative of accid?

Etymology 2

Form of the verb acc?d? (“I cut down”).

Verb

acc?dent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of acc?d?

Middle French

Noun

accident m (plural accidens)

1. accident (unexpected outcome)

Old French

Noun

accident m (oblique plural accidenz or accidentz, nominative singular accidenz or accidentz, nominative plural accident)

1. accident (chance occurrence)
2. symptom (medical)

Descendants

• English: accident
• French: accident

Romanian

Etymology

From French accident

Noun

accident n (plural accidente)

1. accident

Declension

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?aks?d?nt]

Noun

accident (plural accidents)

1. An accident; a coincidental occurence or event.

References

• Eagle, Andy, editor (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.

English

Etymology

From Middle English fortune, from Old French fortune, from Latin fortuna (“fate, luck”). The plural form fortunae meant “possessions”, which also gave fortune the meaning of “riches”.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f??t?u?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f??t??n/, /?f??t?un/

Noun

fortune (countable and uncountable, plural fortunes)

1. Destiny, especially favorable.
   • 1647, Abraham Cowley, The Mistress (“My Fate”):

     you, who men's fortunes in their faces read
2. A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.
3. A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.
4. The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Act 2, Scene 3:

     'Tis more by fortune, lady, than by merit.

5. Good luck.
   • 1623, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act 4, Scene 3:

     There is a tide in the affairs of men / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

6. One's wealth; the amount of money one has; especially, if it is vast.

7. A large amount of money.

Synonyms

• (the arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner): hap, luck; see also Thesaurus:luck
• (one's wealth): riches; see also Thesaurus:wealth

Antonyms

• (good luck): doom, misfortune

Derived terms

Related terms

• fortuitous
• fortuity

Translations

Verb

fortune (third-person singular simple present fortunes, present participle fortuning, simple past and past participle fortuned)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To happen, take place. [14th-19th c.]
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew ch. 8:

     Then the heerdmen, fleed and went there ways into the cite, and tolde everythinge, and what had fortuned unto them that were possessed of the devyls.
2. To provide with a fortune.
   • 1740, Samuel Richardson, Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded

     When the broken-fortuned peer goes into the city to marry a rich tradesman's daughter , be he duke or earl , does not his consort immediately become ennobled by his choice ?

3. To presage; to tell the fortune of.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

Anagrams

• ten-four

French

Etymology

From Middle French fortune, from Old French fortune, borrowed from Latin fort?na.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??.tyn/

Noun

fortune f (plural fortunes)

1. fortune

   faire une fortune

   make a fortune

   faire fortune

   make a fortune

Derived terms

Further reading

• “fortune” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [for?t?u?.ne]
• Rhymes: -une

Noun

fortune f

1. plural of fortuna

Anagrams

• funtore

Middle English

Etymology

From Old French fortune, from Latin fortuna.

Noun

fortune (plural fortunes)

1. fortune (fate, chance)

Descendants

• English: fortune
  • ? Welsh: ffortiwn
• Scots: fortuin

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French fortune, borrowed from Latin fortuna.

Noun

fortune f (plural fortunes)

1. fortune (fate, chance)

Descendants

• French: fortune