NODE / 0030attestedFrench

désastre

misfortune; calamity

DATE: 16th century
SENSE: default
FAMILY: Indo-European / Romance
CANONICAL KEY: node:11:desastre:attested

French transmission belongs to a wider French–Italian borrowing history.

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Italian / early Italian · early modern Italian

disastro

calamity; unfavorable star

SOUND: French désastre and Italian disastro belong to the same Romance formation and transmission history.
MEANING: Astrologically unfavorable influence generalized to severe misfortune.
SCHOLAR: Romance historical lexicography
CONFIDENCE: probable — The exact immediate donor sequence is represented cautiously.

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Romance transmission.

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Present-Day English · 1567–today

disaster

a sudden calamitous event

SOUND: English adapted the French form, including stress and final syllable.
MEANING: The inherited calamity sense became the general modern category of disaster.
CHRONOLOGY: English first known use: 1567.
SCHOLAR: Merriam-Webster editors
CONFIDENCE: established

Disaster — Word HistorysupportsWord History and First Known Use

English date and French–Italian transmission.

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Frenchdésastre→Present-Day English · 1567–todaydisastera sudden calamitous event

SOUND: English adapted the French form, including stress and final syllable.
MEANING: The inherited calamity sense became the general modern category of disaster.

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ATTESTATIONS / FIRST KNOWN USE

DIRECTLY INSPECTEDprinted bookestablished

1694

The first edition of the Académie française dictionary prints DESASTRE as a headword and defines it as a disastrous accident or misfortune.

DESASTRE. s. m. Accident funeste, malheur.

disaster dossier · recorded as désastre

Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France; digitized by BnF Gallica · ark:/12148/bpt6k12803924, f. 89WITNESS RECORD ↗Le dictionnaire de l'Académie française. Tome 1 (A–L), première édition ↗FACSIMILE ↗

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