fatidic

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin fātidicus, from fātum (fate) + dico (I speak).

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

fatidic (comparative more fatidic, superlative most fatidic)

  1. (now rare) Of or pertaining to prophecy; prophetic
    • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 112:
      At that moment he felt quite proud of his stratagem. He was to recall it with a fatidic shiver seventeen years later [...].

Translations[edit]

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French fatidique, from Latin fatidicus.

Adjective[edit]

fatidic m or n (feminine singular fatidică, masculine plural fatidici, feminine and neuter plural fatidice)

  1. fateful

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