Etymology

Past participle of afortunar.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a‧for‧tu‧na‧do

Adjective

afortunado (feminine afortunada, masculine plural afortunados, feminine plural afortunadas)Category:Portuguese lemmas#AFORTUNADOCategory:Portuguese adjectives#AFORTUNADOCategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#AFORTUNADOCategory:Pages with entries#AFORTUNADOCategory:Pages with 2 entries#AFORTUNADO

1. (of an event) fortunate; auspicious (coming by good luck or favourable chance)

   Synonym: feliz

2. (of a person) fortunate; lucky (favourable by good luck)

   Synonym: sortudo

Noun

afortunado m (plural afortunados, feminine afortunada, feminine plural afortunadas)Category:Portuguese lemmas#AFORTUNADOCategory:Portuguese nouns#AFORTUNADOCategory:Portuguese countable nouns#AFORTUNADOCategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#AFORTUNADOCategory:Portuguese masculine nouns#AFORTUNADOCategory:Pages with entries#AFORTUNADOCategory:Pages with 2 entries#AFORTUNADO

1. a fortunate person

   Synonym: sortudo

Further reading

• “afortunado”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “afortunado”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Etymology

From afortunar +‎ -adoCategory:Spanish terms suffixed with -ado#AFORTUNADO.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /afoɾtuˈnado/ [a.foɾ.t̪uˈna.ð̞o]Category:Spanish 5-syllable words#AFORTUNADOCategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#AFORTUNADO

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• Rhymes: -adoCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/ado#AFORTUNADOCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/ado/5 syllables#AFORTUNADO
• Syllabification: a‧for‧tu‧na‧do

Adjective

afortunado (feminine afortunada, masculine plural afortunados, feminine plural afortunadas)Category:Spanish lemmas#AFORTUNADOCategory:Spanish adjectives#AFORTUNADOCategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#AFORTUNADOCategory:Pages with entries#AFORTUNADOCategory:Pages with 2 entries#AFORTUNADO

1. lucky, fortunate

   Synonym: suertudo

   Antonym: desafortunado

   Me considero afortunado.

   I consider myself lucky.

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Participle

afortunado (feminine afortunada, masculine plural afortunados, feminine plural afortunadas)Category:Spanish non-lemma forms#AFORTUNADOCategory:Spanish past participles#AFORTUNADOCategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#AFORTUNADOCategory:Pages with entries#AFORTUNADOCategory:Pages with 2 entries#AFORTUNADO

1. past participle of afortunarCategory:Spanish past participles#AFORTUNADO

Further reading

• “afortunado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025