different between fate vs death

English

Etymology

From Latin fata (“prediction”), plural of fatum, from fatus (“spoken”), from for (“to speak”). Displaced native Old English wyrd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Noun

fate (countable and uncountable, plural fates)

1. The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.

   • Captain Edward Carlisle […] felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, […]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.

2. The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
3. An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
4. Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.

5. (mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).

Synonyms

• destiny
• doom
• fortune
• kismet
• lot
• necessity
• orlay
• predestination
• wyrd

Antonyms

• choice
• free will
• freedom
• chance

Derived terms

• fatal
• fatalism
• fatality
• tempt fate

Related terms

• amor fati (Amor fati)

Translations

See also

• determinism
• indeterminism

Verb

fate (third-person singular simple present fates, present participle fating, simple past and past participle fated)

1. (transitive) To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.

   The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.

   • 2011, James Al-Shamma, Sarah Ruhl: A Critical Study of the Plays (page 119)

     At the conclusion of this part, Eric, who plays Jesus and is now a soldier, captures Violet in the forest, fating her to a concentration camp.

Usage notes

• In some uses this may imply it causes the inevitable event.

Translations

Anagrams

• EFTA, TAFE, TFAE, feat, feat., feta

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?fa?.t?e], /?fate/
• Hyphenation: fà?te

Verb

fate

1. inflection of fare:
   1. second-person plural indicative present
   2. second-person plural imperative

Noun

fate f

1. plural of fata

Anagrams

• afte

Latin

Participle

f?te

1. vocative masculine singular of f?tus

Murui Huitoto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??a.t?]
• Hyphenation: fa?te

Verb

fate

1. (transitive) to hit
2. (intransitive) to hit

References

• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.?^[1], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 130

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

fate (present tense fatar, past tense fata, past participle fata, passive infinitive fatast, present participle fatande, imperative fat)

1. Alternative form of fata

Anagrams

• EFTA, efta, feta

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe?t/

Noun

fate

1. feat

Volapük

Noun

fate

1. dative singular of fat

Yamdena

Alternative forms

• fat

Etymology

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Austronesian *S?pat.

Numeral

fate

1. Alternative form of fat

English

Alternative forms

• deth (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English deeth, from Old English d?aþ, from Proto-West Germanic *dauþu, from Proto-Germanic *dauþuz (compare West Frisian dead, Dutch dood, German Tod, Swedish död), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ówtus. Equivalent to die +? -th. More at die.

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?th, IPA^(key): /d??/
• Rhymes: -??
• (West Country) IPA^(key): /di??/
• Homophones: debt (with th-stopping), deaf (with th-fronting)

Noun

death (countable and uncountable, plural deaths)

2. The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.
   1. Execution (in the judicial sense).

3. (often capitalized) The personification of death as a hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper. The pronoun he is not the only option, but probably the most traditional one, as it matches with the male grammatical gender of Old English d?aþ, also with cognate German der Tod. The fourth apocalyptic rider (Bible, revelations 6:8) is male ???????? (thanatos) in Greek. It has the female name Mors in Latin, but is referred to with male forms qui and eum. The following quotes show this rider on a pale horse is his in the English Bible and she in Peter Gabriel's lyrics.
4. (the death) The collapse or end of something.
   • 1983, Robert R. Faulkner, Music on Demand (page 90)

     He may even find himself being blamed if the project dies a quick and horrible death at the box office or is unceremoniously axed by the network.

   1. (figuratively, especially followed by of-phrase) A cause of great stress, exhaustion, embarrassment, or another negative condition (for someone).

5. (figuratively) Spiritual lifelessness.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:death

Derived terms

Pages starting with “death”.

Translations

See also

Further reading

• The Definition of Death - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Anagrams

• Theda, hated