English
fatesome
Fatesome comes from English fate.
- English1500–presentfate
- Englishearliest quotation 2011fatesome
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- English1500–presentfate
- Englishearliest quotation 2011fatesome
Earliest quotation: 2011, Tommy Anthony, The Knowledge of Good and Evil: “One fatesome day while waiting for my landscaping friend…”
A compound of fate + -some
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- ‘to speak’
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Proto-Italic *fātos
Latin fātus ‘spoken’
Latin fātum
Middle English fate
English fate
Every English word from English fate
Today it means
adj Characterised or marked by fate; fateful.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / English fate / fatesome