Meaning of "fortuna" in the Spanish dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FORTUNA

La palabra fortuna procede del latín Fortūna.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF FORTUNA IN SPANISH

for · tu · na

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FORTUNA

Fortuna is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FORTUNA MEAN IN SPANISH?

Definition of fortuna in the Spanish dictionary

The first definition of fortune in the dictionary of the real academy of the Spanish language is chaining of events, considered as fortuitous. Another meaning of fortune in the dictionary is casual circumstance of people and things. Fortuna is also favorable luck.

La primera definición de fortuna en el diccionario de la real academia de la lengua española es encadenamiento de los sucesos, considerado como fortuito. Otro significado de fortuna en el diccionario es circunstancia casual de personas y cosas. Fortuna es también suerte favorable.

TRANSLATION OF FORTUNA

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The translations of fortuna from Spanish to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fortuna» in Spanish.

In the following section you can check the translations of fortuna in the Spanish-English dictionary.

• Translator Spanish - Chinese: 幸运
• Spanish: fortuna
• Translator Spanish - English: fortune
• Translator Spanish - Hindi: भाग्य
• Translator Spanish - Arabic: ثروة
• Translator Spanish - Russian: состояние
• Translator Spanish - Portuguese: fortuna
• Translator Spanish - Bengali: ভাগ্য
• Translator Spanish - French: fortune
• Translator Spanish - Malay: nasib
• Translator Spanish - German: Glück
• Translator Spanish - Japanese: 幸運
• Translator Spanish - Korean: 운
• Translator Spanish - Javanese: rejeki
• Translator Spanish - Vietnamese: vận may
• Translator Spanish - Tamil: அதிர்ஷ்டம்
• Translator Spanish - Marathi: भविष्य
• Translator Spanish - Turkish: servet
• Translator Spanish - Italian: fortuna
• Translator Spanish - Polish: majątek
• Translator Spanish - Ukrainian: стан
• Translator Spanish - Romanian: avere
• Translator Spanish - Greek: τύχη
• Translator Spanish - Afrikaans: fortuin
• Translator Spanish - Swedish: förmögenhet
• Translator Spanish - Norwegian: formue

SPANISH - ENGLISH DICTIONARY

fortuna

fortuna^-1 

  fortune ; lot ; good fortune.

 These institutions have become so intertwined that the fortunes of one are inextricably linked to the fortunes of the other - for good or for ill.

 This article reports on the 9th weekend school organised by the Branch and Mobile Libraries Group of the Library Association the theme of which was 'Improving your lot'.

 There is an element of good fortune involved in being in the right place at the right time and it is essential to take the best advantage of whatever opportunities arise.

galleta de la fortuna 

fortune cookie

 The article 'The fortune cookie: socio-political impact of information technology' predicts that information technologies will radically alter the nature of our society and affect the prevailing economic, political, and social values.

huesecillos de la fortuna  [Pequeños huesos que utilizan los adivinos para predecir el futuro arrojándolos sobre una superficie y analizando la combinación resultante]

oracle bones

 The library also collects old and rare books, rubbings from stone tablets, oracle bones and maps.

mala fortuna 

misfortune

 The economic misfortunes of the decade had removed much of the opposition to the working classes using public libraries.

por fortuna  [Con sentido positivo o negativo dependiendo del contexto]  [Con sentido positivo o negativo dependiendo del contexto]   

as fate would have it

as luck would have it

as good luck would have it

fortunately

by good fortune

 As fate would have it, I wasn't pregnant, but I would have accepted and loved this child with all my heart.

 Today seemed like any other day under the blue skies of the tradewinds until, as luck would have it, his paddle broke.

 When we came to supper there was neither a knife nor a fork on the table to eat with, but as good luck would have it, we had knives of our own.

 Fortunately for all of us in this room and for the nation's library, Mr. Berman and Mr. Blume, chief of our Subject Cataloging Division, are in communication.

 Also they intended to plunder us of all our riches, but by good fortune we were able to defeat and capture them.

por la mala fortuna 

by ill fate

 The story revolves around a group of people who were not connected to each other in anyway other than by ill fate.

por mala fortuna    

unfortunately

unhappily

sadly

by bad fortune

 Unfortunately, these factors simultaneously make the resolution of the situation more intractable.

 Unhappily, an online subject retrieval catalog also has the potential for heavy burden on the computer.

 Sadly, the information network has not so far been able to respond adequately to the special needs of business.

 Usually, there were mules to ride, but by bad fortune, another party had arrived a day or so sooner and taken them all.

revés de la fortuna 

reversal of fortune

 The article 'A reversal of fortune' reports on 2 recent USA Supreme Court cases which have favoured the interests of copyright defendants over those of plaintiffs.

rueda de la fortuna, la  

wheel of fortune, the

fortune's wheel

 The continual cycle of change is represented by the wheel of fortune, in which good and evil, luck and ruin, harmony and discord perpetually wax and wane.

 Fortune's wheel first appears in classical antiquity as a metaphor for the vicissitudes of life for it raises the hopeful and abases the proud.

fortuna

fortuna^-2 

  fortune.

 Robert Watt was thoroughly bitten by the bibliography bug and although he bequeathed an important piece of work to posterity, he and his surviving family can hardly be said to have enjoyed good fortune from it.

amasar una fortuna   

amass + a fortune

heap up + money

heap up + wealth

 Since leaving office in 2007, Blair has amassed a fortune estimated to be in excess of 20 million pounds.

 The question is that we, from the lower echelons, cannot understand how the rich can be so egoistic as to go on and on with heaping up money.

 As the merchants continued to heap up wealth, it naturally followed that they began to look beyond the narrow horizons of the Middle Ages.

amasar una forturna 

heap up + riches

 He heaps up riches for someone else to spend.

contar con una fortuna 

sit on + a fortune

 Kenya and other African states are sitting on a fortune in the form of unexploited natural cures.

costar una fortuna 

cost + a fortune

 Cheese on the other hand costs a fortune even if you make it yourself, unless you own a goat or a cow.

de la fortuna a la pobreza 

riches to rags

 A riches-to-rags story could be unfolding in Horatio's hometown, where leaders are considering dropping his name from the festival next year.

de la pobreza a la fortuna 

rags to riches

 It is an epic story of rags to riches, of a black man's struggle in a white world, of untimely death, and of the tragedy of a mission unfulfilled.

derrochar + Posesivo + fortuna 

squander + Posesivo + money

 By making a recommendation, the librarian would be helping the person avoid squandering money.

despilfarrar + Posesivo + fortuna 

squander + Posesivo + money

 By making a recommendation, the librarian would be helping the person avoid squandering money.

disponer de una fortuna 

sit on + a fortune

 Kenya and other African states are sitting on a fortune in the form of unexploited natural cures.

hacer fortuna     

make + Posesivo + fortune

make + a fortune

strike + it rich

strike + gold

hit + the jackpot

 Trading for cash, not credit, Lackington relied on the size of his turnover to make his fortune.

 Lester J. V. Halvorsen, a Swedish immigrant who made a fortune in lumber, built the mansion for his Italian bride.

 'Stagecoach robberies', 'shoot-outs', 'striking it rich' these are all typical events associated to the Wild West when men and women from the East went to California searching for gold = "Asaltos a las diligencias", "tiroteos", "volverse millonario" son cosas típicas asociadas al Lejano Oeste cuando los hombres y las mujeres del este se dirigieron a California en busca de oro.

 That was a Gold Rush term: the money a miner needed for grub until he struck gold.

 Many gamblers dream about the day that they will hit the jackpot.

hombre de fortuna  

man of means

man of substance

 Almost all of them were well-educated men of means who were leaders in their communities.

 Half his adult life had been spent in a struggle to raise that capital - a fruitless struggle, for he had not yet found a single man of substance to share his vision.

mujer de fortuna  

woman of means

woman of substance

 Women of means or with some skill opened businesses: dressmaking shops, stables and even blacksmith shops.

 Set high expectations for yourself and for others because a woman of substance knows what they're worth and what they deserve.

tener una fortuna 

sit on + a fortune

 Kenya and other African states are sitting on a fortune in the form of unexploited natural cures.

una fortuna 

a king's ransom

 Everybody believes that you have to pay surgeons a king's ransom because their intervention saves your life.

valer una fortuna 

cost + a fortune

 Cheese on the other hand costs a fortune even if you make it yourself, unless you own a goat or a cow.

10 SPANISH QUOTES WITH «FORTUNA»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word fortuna.

1

André Maurois

La fortuna, el triunfo, la gloria, el poder pueden aumentar la felicidad, pero no pueden crearla. Sólo los afectos la dan.

2

Benjamin Disraeli

La fortuna, el éxito, la gloria, el poder pueden aumentar la felicidad, pero no darla. Sólo el cariño da la dicha.

3

Benjamin Franklin

Al hombre osado la fortuna le da la mano.

4

Cicerón

No sólo la fortuna es ciega, sino que hace ciegos a aquellos que favorece.

5

Cicerón

Con la virtud por guía, con la fortuna por compañera.

6

François De La Rochefoucauld

Nuestra prudencia está sujeta a la fortuna, como nuestros bienes.

7

Fray Antonio De Guevara

Nadie confíe en los halagos de la prosperidad, porque es estilo de la fortuna entretenerse y deleitarse en quitar hoy lo que dio ayer.

8

Giuseppe Baretti

La sangre noble es un accidente de la fortuna; las acciones nobles caracterizan al verdadero grande.

9

Hermann Vierordt

La única porción de fortuna es la felicidad familiar.

10

Johann W. Goethe

Sobre la gran balanza de la fortuna, raramente se detiene el fiel; debes subir o bajar; debes dominar y ganar o servir y perder, sufrir o triunfar; ser yunque o martillo.

10 SPANISH PROVERBS WITH THE WORD «FORTUNA»

Pocos pasan la mar que no cuenten fortuna.

A amor y fortuna, resistencia ninguna.

Al buen corazón la fortuna le favorece.

Amor y fortuna no tienen defensa alguna.

Como la fortuna es ciega y loca, dalo al primero que topa.

Como la fortuna es ciega, dalo al primero con quien se tropieza.

Contra fortuna, no vale arte alguna.

Fortuna es buena escarmentar en cabeza ajena.

Fortuna sobre fortuna, mal sobre mal.

Fortuna te de Dios, que el saber poco te basta.

10 SPANISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FORTUNA»

Discover the use of fortuna in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fortuna and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in Spanish literature.

Hija de la fortuna

Joaquín se va a San Francisco en busca de su fortuna, y Eliza, embarazada de su hijo, decide seguirlo. Hija de la Fortuna es un magnífico retrato de una época, una narración rica en personajes, historia, violencia y compasión.

Isabel Allende, 2013

La rueda de la fortuna

La rueda de la fortuna relata la historia del emperador bizantino Mauricio quien en el siglo VI se enfrento al Imperio Persa y apoyo al joven Cosroes II -nieto del gran Cosroes- para que este ocupase el trono persa y firmasen un tratado de ...

Antonio Mira de Amescua, 2012

Dulce fortuna

Tal vez una cucharada de azúcar era justo lo que ese adicto al trabajo necesitaba.

Marie Ferrarella, 2012

El hombre feliz independiente del mundo y de la fortuna o ...

par de los hados , que le persiguen :' á fuerza de diligencias puede ser que obligue a la fortuna inconstante í que al fin se pare , y vuelva atras su terrible rueda : rueda fatal , con que ha seis años que me oprime. 1 Puede ser que la Polonia ...

Teodoro de Almeida ((C.O.)), Antonio de las Nieves, Imprenta Real (Madrid), 1787

Una dama sin fortuna

Había que admitir que su esposo era guapo, pero tenía el corazón negro Desesperada por salvaguardar el futuro de su adorado sobrino, la arruinada lady Artemis Dearing era capaz de hacer cualquier cosa, incluso casarse con el hombre que ...

Deborah Hale, 2011

Retrato al vivo del Natural de la Fortuna

Porquela fortuna hecha fu obra, [^^/afde □como el medico hecho fu ofEçio , y da *- poder haxer, do el veneno ( que ... "los" la fortuna) suele desuiarse , y dexar à la hombres.que naturaleza su corriente de los effectos ¡S^d»» naturales : y esta ...

Antonio Pérez, 1625

El hombre feliz independiente del mundo y de la fortuna, o, ...

EL. FELIZ. INDEPENDIENTE DEL MUNDO \ Y DE IA FORTUNA. LIBRO SEXTO. I . LSo sabré yo describiros, prosiguió Miseno , el horror de aquella carcel. Teniamos allí la noche obscura por compañera inseparable: contabamos las horas, ...

Theodoro de Almeida, 1806

Desengaño de fortuna

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Gutierre Marqués de Careaga, Alonso Pérez de Montalbán ((Madrid)), 1612

La fortuna de Ulises

A través de la figura de un emigrante, el autor nos acerca al complicado mundo de los negocios y del dinero, para llegar a la conclusión de que ni el dinero ni el poder pueden sustituir las más elementales necesidades del ser humano: la ...

Juan Farias, 1991

La próspera fortuna de don Bernardo Cabrera

Esta obra inspirada en la historia politica de Espana, relata la vida de Bernardo Cabrera (Calatayud, 1289-Zaragoza, 1364) Este noble aragones participo en la conquista de Mallorca (1343), y comando la escuadra que derroto a la flota ...

Antonio Mira de Amescua, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FORTUNA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term fortuna is used in the context of the following news items.

Fortuna de Prince ya tiene administrador

El monto de la fortuna de Prince no se conoce, aunque el sitio web Celebrity Net Worth la estima en 300 millones de dólares, luego de vender más de 100 ... «ElEspectador.com, Apr 16»

Revelaron la fortuna de Adele

Adele se ha convertido en la cantante británica más rica de la historia, con una fortuna estimada en 85 millones de libras (121 millones de dólares), según un ... «Clarín.com, Apr 16»

La fortuna de las FARC

Las FARC tienen casi toda su fortuna invertida en Colombia y escondida en zulos. Un informe aparecido hoy en 'The Economist' vuelve a poner sobre el tapete ... «El Mundo, Apr 16»

La fortuna de Amancio Ortega ha aumentado en 52.000 millones en ...

Gates ha mantenido esta posición a pesar de que su fortuna haya descendido un 5,3% con respecto al año anterior. Asimismo, durante el período de crisis el ... «El Mundo, Mar 16»

Nueva rueda de la fortuna en la CDMX gira entre rechazos y ...

Las autoridades capitalinas defienden la rueda de la fortuna en la primera sección del Bosque de Chapultepec, y aseguran que la obra estará lista en marzo; ... «Animal Político Versión Móvil, Feb 16»

La fortuna de David Bowie, cifrada en 100 millones de dólares, se ...

El cantante David Bowie ha legado su fortuna, cifrada en unos 100 millones de dólares, a su mujer, sus hijos y algunos allegados. El cantante había mostrado ... «ABC.es, Jan 16»

La fortuna de Carlos Slim se reduce en unos 20.000 millones en 2015

Carlos Slim ha tenido un año difícil. El peor, de hecho, de todos los multimillonarios del mundo. Desde comienzos de 2015, la fortuna de este ejecutivo ... «elEconomista.es, Dec 15»

Mauricio Macri pondrá su fortuna en un fideicomiso

Mauricio Macri anunció ayer que pondrá su fortuna personal en un fideicomiso con el fin de otorgarle mayor transparencia a su gestión. "Estoy buscando un ... «LA NACION, Nov 15»

La verdad detrás de la noticia sobre la fortuna de Pablo Escobar ...

En la víspera diversos medios colombianos dieron a conocer que un agricultor había encontrado 600 millones de dólares, pertenecientes a la fortuna del ... «LaRepública.pe, Nov 15»

¿Cómo de rico es Amancio Ortega? 7 comparaciones para ...

Amancio Ortega sigue siendo el hombre más rico de España, según la lista Forbes. Con una fortuna de 60.900 millones de euros, el fundador de Inditex ... «El Huffington Post, Nov 15»