Church Slavonic words имарменя (имаръмения), фатунъ и фортунa (фуртуна) in Maksim the Greek’s works The report raises the question about the peculiarities of the individual intellectual vocabulary in the works of Maxim the Greek. The object of this study is the use by the author of some words that convey the concept of "fate", in particular three borrowings from the Greek and Latin languages, i.e. the Church Slavonic lemmas имарменя (имаръмения), фатунъ и фортунa (фуртуна). Special attention is paid to the comparison of Maksim the Greek’s usage of individual words and their functioning in examples taken from the historical section of the National Corpus of the Russian language in order to identify the characteristics of the lexical preferences of the author.