LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
adjectivefirst/second-declension adjective

fortūnātus1

fortūnātus (feminine fortūnāta, neuter fortūnātum, comparative fortūnātior, superlative fortūnātissimus, adverb fortūnātē)
Classical[fɔr.tuːˈnaː.tʊs]Ecclesiastical[for.tuˈnaː.tus]

Meaning

  1. adjectiveblessed, prosperous, lucky, fortunate
    Ō fortūnātī, quōrum iam moenia surgunt!“Oh fortunate [ones], whose walls already rise!” Aeneas cries, while gazing at the rooftops of the city.29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 1.437–438
  2. adjectivewell off, wealthy, rich

Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers

fēlīx, cui fortūna favet
fortūnātus -a -um — in Aeneis, ch. 3

Declension

singular
formmasculinefeminineneuter
nominativefortūnātusfortūnātafortūnātum
genitivefortūnātīfortūnātaefortūnātī
dativefortūnātōfortūnātaefortūnātō
accusativefortūnātumfortūnātamfortūnātum
ablativefortūnātōfortūnātāfortūnātō
vocativefortūnātefortūnātafortūnātum
plural
formmasculinefeminineneuter
nominativefortūnātīfortūnātaefortūnāta
genitivefortūnātōrumfortūnātārumfortūnātōrum
dativefortūnātīsfortūnātīsfortūnātīs
accusativefortūnātōsfortūnātāsfortūnāta
ablativefortūnātīsfortūnātīsfortūnātīs
vocativefortūnātīfortūnātaefortūnāta

fortūnātus, a, um, Part. and P. a., from fortuno.

Origins

Perfect passive participle of fortūnō (“make prosperous”)

Descendants
  • Frenchfortuné
  • Italianfortunato
  • Friulianfortunât
  • Ligurianfortunòu
  • Piedmontesefortunà

In English words that came into English from fortūnātus

  • fortunatefortūnātus
proper noun · masculinesecond declension
Fortūnātus2
Fortūnātus m sg (genitive Fortūnātī)
Classical[fɔr.tuːˈnaː.tʊs]Ecclesiastical[for.tuˈnaː.tus]

Meaning

  1. Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus (circa AD 530–600/609): Latin poet, hymnodist, and historian at the court of the Merovingians; bishop of Poitiers; and friend, beneficiary, and defender of Gregory of Tours
  2. Fortunatus, a legendary young man, who is gifted by Fortune with a bottomless purse.
    And then followed such a list of estates here, and estates there, mortgages in every county in England, and money vested in the stocks of every known capital—English, French, Russian, and American—that Scott began to think the late Henry Smythe must have been the possessor of Fortunatus's purse.1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Talisman, page 98:

Declension

declension
formsingularplural
nominativeFortūnātus—
genitiveFortūnātī—
dativeFortūnātō—
accusativeFortūnātum—
ablativeFortūnātō—
vocativeFortūnāte—

Origins

Descendants
  • FrenchFortuné
  • FrenchFortunat
  • ItalianFortunato
  • RussianФортуна́т

Quick answers

What does fortūnātus mean in Latin?
fortūnātus, a adjective, means “blessed, prosperous, lucky, fortunate; well off, wealthy, rich”.
How do you pronounce fortūnātus?
In classical Latin, [fɔr.tuːˈnaː.tʊs]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [for.tuˈnaː.tus].