fortuna

IPA: fɔrtˈunʌ

Root Word: Fortuna

(Roman mythology) The Roman goddess of luck, fortune and fate, equivalent to the Greek goddess Tyche.
(astronomy) 19 Fortuna, a main belt asteroid.
A city in Humboldt County, California, United States.
A ghost town in Arizona.
A city and village in North Dakota.
A settlement in Saint Thomas, United States Virgin Islands.

Examples of "fortuna" in Sentences

Fortes fortuna iuvat in The Secrets of Vesuvius means 'Fortune favours the brave'
Wonder how that would look with the Latin translation of “Audentes fortuna iuvat”?
They talked about "fortuna" all the time and never forgot how surprising the world can be.
And maybe someday you will attempt to answer the question of the evolutionary construct of rape and murder but I wont hold my breath. adios y buena fortuna.
Romans must recognize the practical affairs, and that empire will be won and kept not by rearranging things according to an ideal, but by working with and through all those things which are called "fortuna".
As a Christian, Boethius could not suggest that she was an actual goddess, but he plays on this old tradition to talk about lowercase fortuna, “luck” or “chance,” as if it were a “she” and an actual force in the world.
Since virtue is that power of the individual which intentionally guides him toward a desired end, the power which unintentionally drives him away from the desired end (namely fortuna) must be a contrary power; hence if one is a friend of virtue (redeeming grace as personified in Beatrice), he is no friend of