disastro

See also: disastrò

Italian

Etymology

From dis- +‎ Latin astrum (“star”); compare Piedmontese disastr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diˈza.stro/
• Rhymes: -astro
• Hyphenation: di‧sà‧stro

Noun

disastro m (plural disastri)

1. disaster

   Synonyms: catastrofe, sciagura

   • a. 1677, Barbara Strozzi (lyrics and music), “Che si può fare”‎^[1]:

     Che si può dire? / Da gl'astri disastri / Mi piovano ogn'hor

     What can you say? / From the heavens disasters / keep raining down on me

Derived terms

• disastroso

Descendants

• Middle French: desastre
  • → English: disaster
  • French: désastre
    • → English: disaster
    • → German: Desaster
    • → German: Unstern (calque)
    • → Romanian: dezastru

Verb

disastro

1. first-person singular present indicative of disastrare

Further reading

• disastro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• dorsista