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“calamity” in Latin
calamitāsloss, damage, harm; misfortune, calamity, disaster; military defeatmiseriamisfortune; misery (great unhappiness)afflīgōto strike, beat, dash (against); cast or throw down, prostrate; to afflict, damage, injure, crush, break or ruin; to humtrīstissad, unhappy, melancholy, morose; sorrowful, mournful; disagreeable, harsh, bitter (of taste)cāsusa fall, downwards movement; accident, chance; an event, happening, occurrence
The English word calamity itself goes back to Latin calamitās.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
calamity
calamitas (misery occasioned by great damage and loss, also by war): miseria (misery: opposed to happiness): res miserae or afflictae (lamentable situation): casus adversus or tristis, from context merely casus (unfortunate accident): res adversae, fortuna afflicta, from context fortuna only (unfortunate circumstances, especially relating to pecuniary and domestic matters): fortuna mala (misfortune, ill fate). To bring calamities upon anybody, miseriarum tempestates alicui excitare; alicui insignem calamitatem inferre. To suffer calamity, in malis esse, jacere, versari; malis urgeri: a calamity, calamitatem accipere. Vid: AFFLICTION.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for calamity?
- The usual Latin words for “calamity” are calamitās, miseria, afflīgō; also trīstis, cāsus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.