destiny

• n. 運命、宿命、摂理
• n.（運命）人名；（英）Destiny、運命。

語源は目的地、目的と同じ。神学名詞の運命として使われる。

destiny

destiny: [14] Etymologically, one’s destiny is that which has been firmly established or determined for one (as if by fate). The word comes from destinee, the Old French descendant of Latin dēstinātus. This was the past participle of dēstināre ‘make firm, establish’, a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix dē- and *stanāre ‘fix’ (source also of English obstinate). This in turn was a derivative of stare ‘stand’, a relative of English stand. The Latin verb also gave English destine [14] and hence destination [15], whose current use comes from an earlier place of destination ‘place for which one is bound’.
=> destination, obstinate, stand

destiny (n.)

mid-14c., from Old French destinée (12c.) "purpose, intent, fate, destiny; that which is destined," noun use of fem. past participle of destiner, from Latin destinare "make firm, establish" (see destination). The sense is of "that which has been firmly established," as by fate.

1. It is my destiny one day to be king.

私はいつか王になる運命にある。

2. Destiny has ordained that they are who they are.

運命はすでに彼らの性格を決定している。

3.He departed this world with a sense of having fulfilled his destiny .

使命を果たした満足感を持ってこの世を去った。

4.She had always been mistress of her own destiny .

彼女はいつも自分の運命を把握することができる。

5.Is it destiny that brings people together，or is it accident？

人々の出会いは天意なのか偶然なのか。