It's the Word of the Day podcast for February 9th.
Today's word is fortuitous, spelled F-O-R-T-U-I-T-O-U-S.
Fortuitous is an adjective.
It's a formal word that usually describes something that comes or happens by a lucky chance.
It can also mean happening by chance and fortunate.
Lucky.
Here's the word used in a sentence from Billboard.
The timing of the hit's resurgence proved fortuitous.
She had nearly wrapped the recording for 2025 full-length pressure,
and the scorching hot single provided a push in the lead-up.
Before its meaning expanded, the word fortuitous meant one thing only, happening by chance.
This was no accident.
Its Latin forebear, fortuitous, shares the same ancient root as force, the Latin word for chance.
But the fact that fortuitous sounds like a blend of fortunate and felicitous,
meaning happily suited to an occasion, likely led to a second meaning of fortunate and lucky.
The seeds of the newer scents were perhaps planted by writers applying overtones of good fortune to something that is a random occurrence.
The lucky use has been disparaged by critics, but it is now well-established.
Irregardless, employing this scents in Sterner Company may be considered chancey.
With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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