Masculine
pech
Meaning
- (masculine,uncountable) bad luck; misfortune
- (masculine,uncountable) breakdown, e.g. of a car
Concepts
brakedown
casus
natural resin
Synonyms
motorpech
bijdraaien
ecologische ramp
ongelukkig voorval
malheur
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/pɛx/
Etymology
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.
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