Fortuitous - an interesting word. I find words as interesting, perhaps more so, than any other subject. I use "fantastic" and "fabulous" most often in relation to their root-words of "fantasy" and "fable" respectively. Notice that fortuitous looks like fortune. I got the following from my dictionary:
ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from Latin fortuitus, from forte ‘by chance,’ from fors ‘chance, luck.’
USAGE The traditional, etymological meaning of fortuitous is ‘happening by chance’: a fortuitous meeting is a chance meeting, which might turn out to be either a good thing or a bad thing. In modern uses, however, fortuitous tends more often to be used to refer to fortunate outcomes, and the word has become more or less a synonym for ‘lucky’ or ‘fortunate.’ This use is frowned upon as being not etymologically correct and is best avoided except in informal contexts.
Interesting, is it not?
~Meggy
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