Fata

See also: fata

English

Proper noun

Fata (plural Fatas)

1. A surname.

Statistics

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

Anagrams

• FTAA, afta, afta'

Latin

Alternative forms

• Fada (Vulgar Latin, Medieval Latin)

Etymology

From fātum (“destiny, lot, fate”) and fātus (“oracle, prophecy, fate”); derived from verb for (“I speak”) from Proto-Italic *fāōr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂ti (“to speak”).

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Fāta f (genitive Fātae); first declension

1. (Greek mythology, mythology) Alternative letter-case form of fāta (“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.

   To Fates and Fairies. Druinus, (slave) of [most illustrious] consul Marcus 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-declension noun (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

Fāta n pl (genitive Fātōrum); second declension

1. (Roman mythology) Alternative letter-case form of fāta (“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.

   To Fates and Fairies. Druinus, (slave) of [most illustrious] consul Marcus 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-declension noun (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”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fatum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fadus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Fata in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 655.
• Fata in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 2697

Romanian

Etymology

From fata, definite form of fată.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Fata f

1. A village in Vedea, Argeș, Romania