EuroLex/F/Chance


 * Original language: French
 * Original form and meaning: chance - 1. luck, 2. happenstance, 3. opportunity, 4. possibility

(Note: If the status is not specifically indicated then the word is stylistically neutral and generally used; if earlier meaning and status equals current use the former may be expressed by writing "dito". Cf. also the project guidelines.)

Annotations
Etymology: from OFr cheance "accident, the falling of dice", from VL cadentia "that which falls out", from L cadentem (nom. cadens), prp. of cadere "to fall". Notions of "opportunity" and "randomness" are equally old in English. The verb meaning "to risk" is from 1859.

Source: http://www.etymonline.com

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