Editing Fado (section)

==Etymology==

[[File:Port-guitar-silva-1796.jpg|thumb|right|[[Portuguese guitar]]]]

The word fado possibly comes from the [[Latin]] word ''fatum''<ref name="DK2013">{{cite book |title=Smithsonian Music: The Definitive Visual History |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cUfyAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA304 |date=1 October 2013 |publisher=Dorling Kindersley Publishing |isbn=978-1-4654-2126-5 |page=304 |chapter=Longing for Fado}}</ref> ("fate", "death" or "utterance"<ref>[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fatum Wiktionary - fatum]</ref>). The word is linked to the music genre itself, although both meanings are approximately the same in the two languages. Nevertheless, many songs play on the double meaning, such as the Amália Rodrigues song "Com que voz", which includes the lyric "''Com que voz chorarei meu triste fado''" ("With what voice should I lament my sad fate/sing my sad fado?").<ref name="Elliott2010">{{cite book |author=Richard Elliott |title=Fado and the Place of Longing: Loss, Memory and the City |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sa-gR-P-pVEC&pg=PA19 |year=2010 |publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |isbn=978-0-7546-6795-7 |page=19, note 17 |quote='Fado', as well as referencing a musical genre, is also the Portuguese word for 'fate', allowing a potential double meaning in many songs that use the word.}}</ref>

Perhaps shedding light on ''fadista'' are the Proto-[[Celt]]ic ''*wātis'' ([[prophet]], [[poet]]; see [[Proto-Celtic language]]), the English-Latin ''[[vates]]'' (Celtic [[bard]], prophet, philosopher),  and the [[Old French]] ''fatiste'' (poet), evolving to the [[Middle French]] ''fatiste'' (actor in a [[medieval]] [[mystery play]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/cursodehistoriad00braguoft |title=Curso de historia da litteratura portugueza, adaptado ás aulas de instrucção secundaria por Theophilo Braga |first=Teófilo |last=Braga |date=28 March 1885 |publisher=Lisboa Nova livraria internacional |access-date=28 March 2018 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/epopasdaracamos01braggoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/epopasdaracamos01braggoog/page/n389 321]|quote=fatiste.|title=Epopêas da rac̨a mosárabe |first=Teófilo |last=Braga |date=28 March 1871 |publisher=Imprensa portugueza |access-date=28 March 2018 |via=Internet Archive}} https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fatiste</ref>