fato

fato is a Latin form of fatum, meaning “fate, destiny”. It is the ablative singular neuter noun or 2nd person singular future active imperative or perfect passive participle ablative singular neuter.

It can also be a form of for, “speak, say (fari)”.

Found 291 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 1.1.29: nam hoc Verrem dicere aiebant, te non fato, ut ceteros ex vestra familia, sed opera sua consulem factum. duo igitur consules et quaesitor erunt ex illiu …

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 2.23: … furtum Lemnium, Unde ígnis cluet mortálibus clam Divísus; eum doctús Prometheus Clepsísse dolo poenásque Iovi Fato éxpendisse suprémo? has igitur poenas pendens adfixus ad Caucasum dicit haec: Titánum suboles, sócia nostri s …

All forms of fatum (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.