different between fate vs faithe

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

Noun

faithe (plural faithes)

1. Obsolete spelling of faith

Norman

Alternative forms

• faire (Guernsey)

Etymology

From Old French faire, from Latin faci?, facere, from Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?- (“to put, place, set”).

Pronunciation

Verb

faithe (gerund faîs'sie)

1. (Jersey) to do, make

Derived terms