[feɪt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the development of events outside a person's control, regarded as predetermined by a supernatural power
(e.g: fate decided his course for him)

- three goddesses who presided over the birth and life of humans. Each person's destiny was thought of as a thread spun, measured, and cut by the three Fates, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos


Phrases:
- seal someone's fate

Origin:
late Middle English: from Italian fato or (later) from its source, Latin fatum ‘that which has been spoken’, from fari ‘speak’

[feɪt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- be destined to happen, turn out, or act in a particular way
(e.g: the regime was fated to end badly)


Phrases:
- seal someone's fate

Origin:
late Middle English: from Italian fato or (later) from its source, Latin fatum ‘that which has been spoken’, from fari ‘speak’