fated
運命の
解説 Definition
fated は fate（運命づける）の過去形・過去分詞に由来し、形容詞として「運命の、運命づけられた」という意味です。避けられない出来事や、そうなると決まっていたように感じられる状況に使います。
Fated describes an event, meeting, choice, or person regarded as destined to have a particular outcome, as though it had been decided in advance by fate. It often conveys inevitability or special significance.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
fated は fate「運命づける」の語末の e を落として -ed を付けた形で、形容詞では語尾を /ɪd/ と一音節加えて発音します。a fated meeting/choice/place のように、「偶然ではなく、前からそうなると定められていたような」場面を表します。単に有名な出来事を指す famed や、死を招く fatal と混同しないようにします。
Link fated directly to fate, the power or course believed to determine events. The verb form is made by dropping the final e of fate and adding -ed, and the adjective is pronounced with an extra “id” syllable: FAY-tid. Imagine a meeting that feels too significant to be accidental—a fated meeting seems to have been arranged by destiny. The word can suggest either a meaningful outcome or an unavoidable one. Do not confuse it with fatal, which often involves death or disaster, or famed, which means well known.
例文
Their fated meeting changed both of their lives.
彼らの運命の出会いは、二人の人生を変えました。
The travelers felt they had reached a fated place.
旅人たちは、自分たちが運命の場所にたどり着いたと感じました。
It seemed like a fated choice, though no one knew the result yet.
まだ誰も結果を知らなかったものの、それは運命の選択のように思えました。
fated の類義語・関連語
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fated の語源・成り立ち Etymology
fate「運命」に -ed がついた形で、fate はラテン語 fatum にさかのぼります。これは fari「語る」由来で、もとは「神々に語られたこと」が転じて「避けられない運命」となったため、fated は「そう定められた」と響きます。関連語は fatal、fable。
Fated is formed from fate with the suffix -ed and literally means “determined by fate.” Fate comes through French from Latin fatum, “that which has been spoken,” especially a divine pronouncement. Fatum derives from fari, “to speak.” The idea of something declared in advance developed into the sense of an unavoidable destiny. Related words such as fatal preserve the connection with an outcome regarded as fixed or inevitable.
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