casualty

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Etymology

From Latin casuālitas (compare casuality).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈkaʒ(ʊ)əlti/

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Noun

casualty (plural casualties)

1. (obsolete) Chance nature; randomness.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, NYRB 2001, vol. 1 p. 327-8:

     The non-necessary [causes] follow; of which, saith Fuchsius, no art can be made, by reason of their uncertainty, casualty, and multitude [...].

2. Something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an accident, a disaster.
3. A person suffering from injuries or who has been killed due to an accident or through an act of violence.
4. (UK) The accident and emergency department of a hospital

Derived terms

• casualty department
• casualty ward

Related terms

• casual

Translations

person

Bulgarian: пострадали (bg) pl., жертви (bg) pl. Chinese: Mandarin: 傷亡者, 伤亡者 (shāngwáng zhě), 死傷者, 死伤者 (sǐshāng zhě), (number of casualties) 死傷人數, 死伤人数 (sǐshāng rénshù) Czech: oběť (cs) f. Finnish: uhri (fi), kuolonuhri (fi) French: victime (fr) m. and f. German: Opfer (de)

Hungarian: áldozat (hu) Italian: ferito (it) m. Japanese: 犠牲者 (ja) (ぎせいしゃ, giseisha) Russian: жертва (ru) (žértva) m. and f., потеря (ru) (potérja) f. (usually plural), пострадавший (ru) (postradávšij) m. Serbo-Croatian: žrtva (sh), stradalnik (sh), postradali (sh) Spanish: baja (es) f.