/fāt/

noun: fate
plural noun: Fates
plural noun: the Fates

1. the development of events beyond a person’s control, regarded as determined by a supernatural power.
   • the course of someone’s life, or the outcome of a particular situation for someone or something, seen as beyond their control.
   • the inescapable death of a person.
2. Greek & Roman Mythologythree goddesses who presided over the birth and life of humans. Each person's destiny was thought of as a thread spun, measured, and cut by the three Fates, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos.
   • another term for Norns.

verb: fate
3rd person present: fates
past tense: fated
past participle: fated
gerund or present participle: fating

be destined to happen, turn out, or act in a particular way.

late Middle English: from Italian fato or (later) from its source, Latin fatum ‘that which has been spoken’, from fari ‘speak’.