English adapted the French form, including stress and final syllable.
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disaster
a sudden calamitous event
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PARENT / EARLIER FORM / attestedFrench · 16th centurydésastre
misfortune; calamity
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The inherited calamity sense became the general modern category of disaster.
English first known use: 1567.
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