pech

Significado (Inglês)

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

Conceitos

azar

má sorte

infortúnio

acidente

catástrofes ecológicas

desgraça

pane

acidentes

Sinônimos

ongeluk

panne

ongeval

tegenslag

motorpech

tegenspoed

bijdraaien

ecologische ramp

accident

ongelukkig voorval

averij

catastrofe

mislukking

probleem

vergissing

malheur

Traduções

bad luck

misfortune

malchance

Pech

mala suerte

Unglück

mala sort

panne

sfortuna

malasorte

Panne

adversa

Missgeschick

mishap

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/pɛx/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Cognato com inglês: pitch

Cognato com holandês: 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.

Frases

Dat ongeval was brute pech .

That accident was brutal bad luck.