Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events. · The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause. · An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time. · Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
From Middle English fate, from Latin fāta (“prediction”), plural of fātum, from fātus (“spoken”), from for (“to speak”). In this sense, displaced native Old English wyrd, whence Modern English weird.
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