pech

Senso (Inglese)

1. (masculine, no-diminutive, uncountable) bad luck; misfortune
2. (masculine, no-diminutive, uncountable) breakdown, e.g. of a car

Concetti

sfortuna

malasorte

jella

disgrazia

catastrofe

iella

sfiga

accidente

malanno

guaio

scalogna

disastro

incidente

sventura

contrattempo

sinonimi

ongeluk

panne

ongeval

tegenslag

motorpech

tegenspoed

bijdraaien

ecologische ramp

accident

ongelukkig voorval

averij

catastrofe

mislukking

probleem

vergissing

malheur

Traduzioni

bad luck

azar

Pech

malchance

misfortune

Unglück

mala suerte

mala sort

má sorte

panne

Panne

adversa

Missgeschick

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/pɛx/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Affine inglese: pitch

Affine olandese: panne

In summary

From German Pech (“bad luck; pitch, tar”), from Old High German peh, from Latin pīx. Doublet of inherited pek (“pitch”). Also cognate with English pitch.
The sense “breakdown” is a Dutch innovation. It is probably modelled on the word ongeluk, which means both “bad luck, misfortune” and “accident”. Since pech typically denotes a lesser kind of bad luck, it came to be used for a lesser kind of traffic accident too. German uses Panne instead; compare Dutch panne.

Frasi

Dat ongeval was brute pech .

That accident was brutal bad luck.