calamityとは意味・読み方・使い方

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語源

From Middle French calamité, from Latin calamitās (“loss, damage; disaster”).

発音

IPA: /kəˈlæmɪti/
ハイフネーション: ca‧lam‧i‧ty

名詞

calamity (plural calamities)

An event resulting in great loss.
- c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], page 67, column 2:
  
  Romeo come forth / Come forth thou fearfull man, / Affliction is enamor’d of thy parts: / And thou art wedded to calamitie.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Age and Youth”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 15:
  
  Yet, at that moment, she felt as if the acquisition of these gems were a calamity. Their possession involved separation from her uncle, from every relic of home affections, and from all that yet lingered with her of her childhood.
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 199:
  
  And the village was deserted, the huts gaped black, rotting, all askew within the fallen enclosures. A calamity had come to it, sure enough.
The distress that results from some disaster.
- 2013 August 14, Daniel Taylor, “Rickie Lambert 's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland”, in The Guardian‎:
  
  They were behind twice, first in the 11th minute when James Morrison scored a goal that was a personal calamity for Hart, and then four minutes into the second half when Kenny Miller eluded Gary Cahill to score with a splendid left-foot drive.

同意語

See also Thesaurus:disaster

派生語

calamitist
calamity howler
fiscalamity


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