miseria

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See also: miséria and misèria

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin miseria (“misfortune”). By surface analysis, misero +‎ -eria.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miˈzɛ.rja/
  • Rhymes: -ɛrja
  • Hyphenation: mi‧sè‧ria

Noun

miseria f (plural miserie)

  1. poverty
    Synonyms: indigenza, povertà
  2. (usually in the plural) trouble, evil, suffering
    Synonyms: infelicità, male
  3. pittance, trifle
    Synonym: sciocchezza
  4. (botany) tradescantia
    Synonym: erba miseria

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Latin

Etymology

From miser.

Pronunciation

Noun

miseria f (genitive miseriae); first declension

  1. misfortune
    Synonyms: plāga, calamitās, incommodum, dētrīmentum, clādēs, incommoditās, īnfortūnium, vulnus, cāsus, malum, cruciātus, nūbēs
    Antonyms: commodum, commoditās
  2. misery, distress, affliction

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative miseria miseriae
Genitive miseriae miseriārum
Dative miseriae miseriīs
Accusative miseriam miseriās
Ablative miseriā miseriīs
Vocative miseria miseriae

Descendants

References

  • “miseria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “miseria”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • miseria in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • miseria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to comfort in misfortune: consolari aliquem in miseriis

Portuguese

Noun

miseria f (plural miserias)

  1. Obsolete spelling of miséria

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin miseria.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miˈseɾja/
  • Rhymes: -eɾja
  • Syllabification: mi‧se‧ria

Noun

miseria f (plural miserias)

  1. misery
  2. poverty
  3. avarice, greed
  4. very small amount

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