infortunate

The adjective is first attested circa 1390, in Middle English, the verb in 1570; inherited from Middle English infortunat(e), borrowed from Latin infortūnātus, see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3). Doublet of unfortunate.

infortunate (comparative more infortunate, superlative most infortunate) (obsolete)

1. Unfortunate, unlucky.
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ix]:

     Henry, though he be infortunate

   • 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 2:

     That infortunate imperfit Embrion of my idle houres the Ile of Dogs before mentioned, breeding vnto me ſuch bitter throwes in the teaming as it did, and the tempeſtes that aroſe at his birth, ſo aſtoniſhing outragious and violent as if my braine had bene conceiued of another Hercules, I was ſo terrifyed with my owne encreaſe (like a woman long trauailing to bee deliuered of a monſter) that it was no ſooner borne but I was glad to run from it.

   • 1655, James Howell, “To Simon Digby, Esq.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:

     a most infortunate chance

2. (astrology) (of a star, planet, etc.) Bringing bad luck, causing misfortune, malevolent.
3. (by extension) Ominous, inauspicious.

infortunate (plural infortunates) (obsolete)

1. An unfortunate.
2. (astrology) An 'unfortunate' planet, star, etc.

infortunate (third-person singular simple present infortunates, present participle infortunating, simple past and past participle infortunated)

1. (obsolete, astrology, ambitransitive) To subject a person to a, or cause a celestial body to be of malevolent influence; to render 'infortunate'. [1570–1896]

• infortunately

• “infortunate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

infortunate

1. feminine plural of infortunato

infortunate f pl

1. feminine plural of infortunato

infortunate f

1. plural of infortunata

īnfortūnāte

1. vocative masculine singular of īnfortūnātus