calamitas

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Latin

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Etymology

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From unattested *calamis ("damaged") +‎ -tās from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥h₂emi- from *kelh₂- (to beat). Compare the negated incolumis from Proto-Italic *enkalamis, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥kl̥h₂emi-. Cognate with clādēs, Proto-Celtic *klamitos and others. An old form by l-d-alternation is Old Latin kadamitās.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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calamitās f (genitive calamitātis); third declension

  1. loss, damage, harm
    Synonyms: damnum, dētrīmentum, incommoditās, iniūria, vulnus, noxa, maleficium, pauperiēs, fraus, āmissiō
    Antonyms: beneficium, favor
  2. misfortune, calamity, disaster
    Synonyms: plāga, miseria, incommodum, dētrīmentum, clādēs, perniciēs, exitium, incommoditās, interitus, īnfortūnium, cruciātus, vulnus, cāsus, malum, nūbēs
    Antonyms: commodum, commoditās
  3. military defeat
    Synonyms: clādēs, incommodum, dētrīmentum, vulnus
    Antonym: victōria
  4. blight, crop failure

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative calamitās calamitātēs
Genitive calamitātis calamitātum
Dative calamitātī calamitātibus
Accusative calamitātem calamitātēs
Ablative calamitāte calamitātibus
Vocative calamitās calamitātēs

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  • calamitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • calamitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • calamitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be overtaken by calamity: in calamitatem incidere
    • to suffer mishap: calamitatem accipere, subire
    • to live a life free from all misfortune: nihil calamitatis (in vita) videre
    • to drain the cup of sorrow.[1: calamitatem haurire
    • to bring mishap, ruin on a person: calamitatem, pestem inferre alicui
    • to be the victim of misfortune: calamitatibus affligi
    • to be overwhelmed with misfortune: calamitatibus obrui
    • to come to the end of one's troubles: calamitatibus defungi
    • schooled by adversity: calamitate doctus

Spanish

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Noun

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calamitas f pl

  1. plural of calamita