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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /diˈzas.tro/
- Rhymes: -astro
- Hyphenation: di‧sà‧stro
Etymology 1
From dis- + Latin astrum (“star”); compare Piedmontese disastr.
Noun
disastro m (plural disastri)
- disaster
- Synonyms: catastrofe, sciagura
a. 1677, Barbara Strozzi, “Che si può fare”:Che si può dire? / Da gl'astri disastri / Mi piovano ogn'hor- What can you say? / From the heavens disasters / keep raining down on me
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
disastro
- first-person singular present indicative of disastrare
Further reading
- disastro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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