miseria
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)
- poverty
- Synonyms: indigenza, povertà
- (usually in the plural) trouble, evil, suffering
- Synonyms: infelicità, male
- pittance, trifle
- Synonym: sciocchezza
- (botany) tradescantia
- Synonym: erba miseria
Related terms
- misero
- miserevole
- miserabile
- immiserire
- porca miseria
Anagrams
- riesami
Latin
Etymology
From miser.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /miˈse.ri.a/, [mɪˈs̠ɛriä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /miˈse.ri.a/, [miˈs̬ɛːriä]
Noun
miseria f (genitive miseriae); first declension
- misfortune
- Synonyms: plāga, calamitās, incommodum, dētrīmentum, clādēs, incommoditās, īnfortūnium, vulnus, cāsus, malum, cruciātus, nūbēs
- Antonyms: commodum, commoditās
- 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
- → Catalan: misèria
- → Old French: miserie
- → English: misery
- French: misère
- → English: misère
- → Romanian: mizerie
- → Italian: miseria
- → Occitan: misèria
- → Polish: mizeria
- → Portuguese: miséria
- → Spanish: miseria
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
- to comfort in misfortune: consolari aliquem in miseriis
Portuguese
Noun
miseria f (plural miserias)
- Obsolete spelling of miséria
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin miseria.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /miˈseɾja/ [miˈse.ɾja]
- Rhymes: -eɾja
- Syllabification: mi‧se‧ria
Noun
miseria f (plural miserias)
- misery
- poverty
- avarice, greed
- very small amount
Related terms
- mísero
Further reading
- “miseria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014