Fortuna
the ancient Roman goddess of fortune, identified with the Greek goddess Tyche.
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How to use Fortuna in a sentence
Fortuna is radically for, and with the Fortunes or fates may be connoted the English fairies known as Portunes.
Archaic England | Harold BayleyI (Scritti intorno al Boccaccio e alla Fortuna delle sue opere).
Giovanni Boccaccio, a Biographical Study | Edward HuttonAt genus immortale manet, multosque per annosStat Fortuna domus, et avi numerantur avorum!
The Insect World | Louis FiguierFortuna, courted by all nations, was in Greek Tyche, or the goddess of chance.
The Art of Entertaining | M. E. W. SherwoodThe Italian Fortuna does not in the least lend herself to caricature.
Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) | Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
British Dictionary definitions for Fortuna
/ (fɔːˈtjuːnə) /
the Roman goddess of fortune and good luck: Greek counterpart: Tyche
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