fiasco
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Etymology [edit]
From Italian fiasco (“bottle, flask”), from Late Latin flasca, flascō "bottle, container", from Frankish flaska "bottle, flask" from Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ (“bottle”); see flask. "Failure" sense comes through French (faire fiasco) from Italian theatrical slang far fiasco (literally, "to make a bottle"), of unknown origin.
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fiasco (plural fiascos, fiascoes)
- A ludicrous or humiliating failure. Some effort that went quite wrong.
- A wine bottle in a (usually straw) jacket.
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- Concise Oxford Dictionary, s. v. fiasco.
- Compact Oxford English Dictionary on-line.
- The Word Detective, Issue of Oct 30, 2001.
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fiasco m (plural fiascos)
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fiasco m (plural fiascos)
Italian [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Late Latin flasco, flasca (“bottle, container”), from Old Frankish *flaska (“bottle, flask”), from Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ (“bottle”), from Proto-Germanic *flehtaną (“to plait”), from Proto-Indo-European *plek- (“to weave, braid”). Akin to Old High German flasca (“flask”), Old English flasce, flaxe (“bottle”). More at flask.
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fiasco m (plural fiaschi)
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- English terms derived from Italian
- English terms derived from Late Latin
- English terms derived from Frankish
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from French
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- Italian terms derived from Late Latin
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