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Thanks to simbosan for the idea
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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It's certainly come to mean fortunate nowBut the roots are not the same. Fortune is from fortunare which means, unsurprisingly, good luck. Fortuitous, on the other hand is from Latin fortuitus, from forte, by chance, ablative of fors, chance.
I would agree that it usually implies a positive spin now but this is not implied in either etymology or original usage.
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