afortunado
Portuguese
Etymology
Past participle of afortunar.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.foʁ.tuˈna.du/ [a.foh.tuˈna.du]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /a.foɾ.tuˈna.du/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /a.foʁ.tuˈna.du/ [a.foχ.tuˈna.du]
- (Caipira) IPA(key): /a.foɻ.tuˈna.du/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /a.foʁ.tuˈna.do/ [a.foh.tuˈna.do]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.fuɾ.tuˈna.du/ [ɐ.fuɾ.tuˈna.ðu]
- Hyphenation: a‧for‧tu‧na‧do
Adjective
afortunado (feminine afortunada, masculine plural afortunados, feminine plural afortunadas)
- (of an event) fortunate; auspicious (coming by good luck or favourable chance)
- Synonym: feliz
- (of a person) fortunate; lucky (favourable by good luck)
- Synonym: sortudo
Derived terms
Noun
afortunado m (plural afortunados, feminine afortunada, feminine plural afortunadas)
Further reading
- “afortunado”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “afortunado”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /afoɾtuˈnado/ [a.foɾ.t̪uˈna.ð̞o]
Audio (Venezuela): (file) - Rhymes: -ado
- Syllabification: a‧for‧tu‧na‧do
Adjective
afortunado (feminine afortunada, masculine plural afortunados, feminine plural afortunadas)
- lucky, fortunate
- Synonym: suertudo
- Antonym: desafortunado
- Me considero afortunado.
- I consider myself lucky.
Derived terms
Participle
afortunado (feminine afortunada, masculine plural afortunados, feminine plural afortunadas)
- past participle of afortunar
Further reading
- “afortunado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025