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When the antiphrasal use is very common, the word can become an auto-antonym, [3] having opposite meanings depending on context. For example, Spanish dichoso [ 4 ] originally meant "fortunate, blissful" as in tierra dichosa , "fortunate land", but it acquired the ironic and colloquial meaning of "infortunate, bothersome" as in ¡Dichosas moscas ...
A contronym is alternatively called an autantonym, auto-antonym, ... Spanish dichoso meant originally "blissful, fortunate" as in tierra dichosa, "fortunate land".
"be more fortunate than Augustus and better than Trajan" ritual acclamation delivered to late Roman emperors Felicitas, Integritas et Sapientia: Happiness, Integrity and Knowledge: The motto of Oakland Colegio Campestre school through which Colombia participates of NASA Educational Programs felix culpa: fortunate fault
Schadenfreude (/ ˈ ʃ ɑː d ən f r ɔɪ d ə /; German: [ˈʃaːdn̩ˌfʁɔʏ̯də] ⓘ; lit. Tooltip literal translation "harm-joy") is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another.
An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.
In linguistics, converses or relational antonyms are pairs of words that refer to a relationship from opposite points of view, such as parent/child or borrow/lend. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The relationship between such words is called a converse relation . [ 2 ]
It is literally translated as: "Fortunate, who was able to know the causes of things". Dryden rendered it: "Happy the Man, who, studying Nature's Laws, / Thro' known Effects can trace the secret Cause" (The works of Virgil, 1697). [1] [2] Virgil may have had in mind the Roman philosopher Lucretius, of the Epicurean school.
Fortunate Atubiga (born 1950), Ghanaian politician; Fortunate Chidzivo (born 1987), Zimbabwean long-distance runner; Fortunate Mafeta Phaka (born 1987), South African environmental scientist, author, television producer and science communicator; Fortunate Thulare (born 1994), Botswanan footballer