Meaning of fada | Babel Free

Definitions

1. fairy
   feminine
2. fate, destiny
   feminine
3. Equivalent to 'witch': A person (now usually particularly a woman) who uses magical or similar supernatural powers to influence or predict events.

Equivalents

Examples

“Et o conde normando, quando a uio fremosa, que mays nõ poderia seer hũa dõzella, dissolle entõ en poridade que auia grã querela della, por que tijna que era dona sem ventura et de maa fada, mays que quantas auia en seu logar et en seu linagẽ, poys que os castelaaos auiã rrecebudo tã grã pesar por ella.”

And the Norman count, when he saw that she was beauty, more than what any maiden could be, told her privately that he had a big trouble with here, because he considered that she was an unfortunate lady, and a jinx [lit. of bad fate], more than every woman in her place and her lineage, since the Castilian had received such large harm because of her

“Por necesidá a guerra é pasadeira, e eso solo porque ten orixen na fada, con que nacemos de senreirar uns contra outros”

because of necessity war is passable, and that just because it originates in the fate, with which we are born, of being hostile against each other

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