Fata

See also:fata

English

Proper noun

Fata(pluralFatas)

1. Asurname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census,Fatais the 25226^thmost common surname in the United States, belonging to 982 individuals.Fatais most common among White (80.65%) individuals.

Anagrams

• FTAA,afta,afta'

Latin

Alternative forms

• Fada(Vulgar Latin,Medieval Latin)

Etymology

Fromfātum(“destiny, lot, fate”)andfātus(“oracle, prophecy, fate”);derived from verbfor(“I speak”)fromProto-Italic*fāōr,fromProto-Indo-European*bʰéh₂ti(“to speak”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ˈfaː.ta/,[ˈfäːt̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ˈfa.ta/,[ˈfäːt̪ä]

Proper noun

Fātaf(genitiveFātae);first declension

1. (Greekmythology,mythology)Alternativeletter-caseform offāta(“Fate; Moira; Fairy, fay, deity of destiny; divine personification of fate”)

   Fatis Fata[bus]/ Druinus M(arci) No[ni] / Arri Muciani c(onsulis) [opp. c(larissimi viri)] / actor praedioru[m] / Tublinat(ium), tegurium / a solo inpendio suo fe/cit et in tutela eius / sestertios n(ummos) CC conlustrio / fundi Vettiani dedit.

   ToFates and Fairies.Druinus, (slave) of [most illustrious] consulMarcus Nonius Arrius Mucianus,administrator of the Toblino estates, erected a shrine at his own expense and for its maintenance he offered two hundred sesterces on the occasion of the purification ceremony of the Vezzano estate

Declension

First-declensionnoun (dative/ablative plural in-ābus).

	singular	plural
nominative	Fāta	Fātae
genitive	Fātae	Fātārum
dative	Fātae	Fātābus
accusative	Fātam	Fātās
ablative	Fātā	Fātābus
vocative	Fāta	Fātae

Proper noun

Fātanpl(genitiveFātōrum);second declension

1. (Romanmythology)Alternativeletter-caseform offāta(“Fates; Parcae; Fairies, fey, deities of destiny; divine personifications of fate”)

   Fatis Fata[bus]/ Druinus M(arci) No[ni] / Arri Muciani c(onsulis) [opp. c(larissimi viri)] / actor praedioru[m] / Tublinat(ium), tegurium / a solo inpendio suo fe/cit et in tutela eius / sestertios n(ummos) CC conlustrio / fundi Vettiani dedit.

   ToFates and Fairies.Druinus, (slave) of [most illustrious] consulMarcus Nonius Arrius Mucianus,administrator of the Toblino estates, erected a shrine at his own expense and for its maintenance he offered two hundred sesterces on the occasion of the purification ceremony of the Vezzano estate

Declension

Second-declensionnoun (neuter), plural only.

	plural
nominative	Fāta
genitive	Fātōrum
dative	Fātīs
accusative	Fāta
ablative	Fātīs
vocative	Fāta

Related terms

• Parca

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian:fata
• North Italian:
  • Piedmontese:faj,faja
  • Venetan:fada
    • →Cimbrian:faada
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese:fada
  • Catalan:fada
  • Old French:fae
    • Middle French:feie,fee
      • French:fée(see there for further descendants)
        • German:Fee
      • →Middle English:faie,fei
        • English:fae,fay,fey
    • Norman:fée
    • →Middle Dutch:feye
      • Dutch:fee
        • Afrikaans:fee
        • →West Frisian:fee
    • ⇒Old French:faerie(see there for further descendants)
  • Gascon:hada,hata
  • Old Occitan:fada
    • Occitan:fada
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian:fada
  • Old Galician-Portuguese:fada
    • Galician:fada
    • Portuguese:fada
  • Spanish:hada,fada(obsolete)
    • →Hiligaynon:ada
    • →Tagalog:ada

Further reading

• “fatum”,inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary,Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fatum”,inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary,New York: Harper & Brothers
• fadusin Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis(augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• FatainGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français,Hachette, page655.
• FatainGeorges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918)Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch,8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column2697

Romanian

Etymology

Fromfata,definite form offată.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Fataf

1. A village inVedea,Argeș,Romania