sort

sort is masculine in French.

fate, destiny (consequences or effects predetermined by past events or a divine will); lot (something used in determining a question by chance); spell (magical incantation). 1688, Guy Miège, The Great French Dictionary. "On a jetté un sort sur son bétail, a spell is made upon his cattle, or his cattle is bewitched."

“Je suis tombé amoureux de lui depuis le premier jour où je l'ai vu. C'était le sort.” — I fell in love with him since the first day I laid eyes on him. It was destiny.

Inherited from Old French sort, from Latin sortem, from Proto-Italic *sortis, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind”). Cf. also the borrowed doublet sorte.