fatidic
adjUK /feɪˈtɪdɪk/
Etymology From Latin fātidicus, from fātum (“fate”) + dico (“to speak”). Via Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- cognate with the synonymous English prophetic.
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Archaic Of or pertaining to prophecy; prophetic.
- At that moment he felt quite proud of his stratagem. He was to recall it with a fatidic shiver seventeen years later [...].1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 112: