calamitous

Significat (Anglès)

  1. Causing or involving calamity; disastrous.
  2. (obsolete) Of a person: involved in a calamity; hence, distressed, miserable.

Oposat a
uncalamitous
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/kəˈlæmɪtəs/
Etimologia (Anglès)

Borrowed from French calamiteux (“calamitous”) (see French -eux, English -ous), from Latin calamitōsus (“destructive, disastrous, ruinous, calamitous”), a contraction of calamitātōsus, from calamitāt- + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of; prone to’ forming adjectives from nouns); calamitāt- is the oblique stem of calamitās (“disaster, misfortune, calamity; damage, harm; loss”), from *calamis (“damaged”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂- (“to beat; to break”)) + -tās (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting a condition or state). By surface analysis, calamity + -ous.

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