fiasco
English
WOTD – 9 November 2007
Etymology
Borrowed 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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɪˈæs.kəʊ/
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Noun
Translations
ludicrous or humiliating situation
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References
- Concise Oxford Dictionary, s. v. fiasco.
- Compact Oxford English Dictionary on-line.
- The Word Detective, Issue of Oct 30, 2001.
Further reading
Fiasco (bottle) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Catalan
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fjas.ko/
Further reading
- “fiasco” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈfjäs̪ːko]
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Related terms
Portuguese
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfjasko/
Further reading
- “fiasco” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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