Fortunatus

fortunatus Latin Alternative forms la Fort. abbreviation Pronunciation Fortūnātus la fortūnātus Proper noun Fortūnātus<2> A masculine en cognomen — famously held by: Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus (circa AD 530–600/609): Latin poet, hymnodist, and historian at the court of the en Merovingian Merovingians; bishop of en Poitiers; and friend, beneficiary, and defender of Gregory of Tours Fortunatus, a legendary young man, who is gifted by Fortune with a bottomless purse. en 1832 w:Letitia Elizabeth Landon Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833 The Talisman 98 And then followed such a list of estates here, and estates there, mortgages in every county in England, and money vested in the stocks of every known capital—English, French, Russian, and American—that Scott began to think the late Henry Smythe must have been the possessor of Fortunatus's purse. Declension Fortūnātus<2> Descendants fr Fortuné Fortunat it Fortunato ru Фортуна́т References 2 Fortūnātus 2_Fortunatus 682/2 Further reading Venantius Fortunatus la la cognomina Old English Etymology From ang la Fortūnātae Īnsulae Proper noun the Canary Islands