φουρτούνα

Greek

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek φορτούνα (phortoúna), borrowed from Venetian fortuna, from Latin fortūna.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fuɾˈtu.na/

Noun

φουρτούνα • (fourtoúna) f (plural φουρτούνες)

(meteorology, sea) rough sea, storm, tempest, squall
chain of unexpected and unpleasant events

Declension

declension of φουρτούνα

case \ number	singular	plural
nominative	φουρτούνα •	φουρτούνες •
genitive	φουρτούνας •	—
accusative	φουρτούνα •	φουρτούνες •
vocative	φουρτούνα •	φουρτούνες •

References

Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée; Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 305, page 225

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