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luck wearing a fancy coat so it can charge you for the privilege.
means A chance occurrence, especially a lucky one that happens by accident rather than design.
from From Latin 'fortuitus,' meaning 'happening by chance,' which grows from 'fors' (chance, luck) — the same root that gave us Fortuna, the Roman goddess who spun her wheel and lifted or crushed people on a whim. The '-ity' ending arrived later in English, the suffix we tack on to make a quality sound abstract and respectable. So the word literally dresses raw luck in the formal robes of a noun — which is exactly the swindle the essence describes.
- latin root
- from fors, meaning chance or luck
- older sibling
- fortune and fortuitous share the same ancestor
- science fan
- penicillin, microwaves, X-rays were all accidents
- legal term
- insurers call unforeseen losses fortuitous events
the discovery of penicillin — alexander fleming's accidental contamination of a bacterial culture in 1928 led to the discovery of the first widely used antibiotic