fiasco
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian fiasco (“bottle, flask”), from Late Latin flasca, flascō (“bottle, container”), from Frankish *flaskā (“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 uncertain origin; perhaps from an expression fare il fiasco, meaning to play a game with the forfeit that the loser will buy the next bottle or round of drinks.[1]
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fiasco (plural fiascos or fiascoes)
- A sudden or unexpected failure.
- A ludicrous or humiliating situation. Some effort that went quite wrong.
- Synonym: debacle
- A wine bottle in a (usually straw) jacket.
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References edit
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “fiasco”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- Concise Oxford Dictionary, s. v. fiasco.
- Compact Oxford English Dictionary on-line.
- The Word Detective, Issue of Oct 30, 2001.
Further reading edit
- Fiasco (bottle) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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fiasco m (plural fiascos)
- fiasco (situation)
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian fiasco. Doublet of flasque.
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fiasco m (plural fiascos)
Further reading edit
- “fiasco”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Etymology edit
From Late Latin flascō, 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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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian fiasco.[1] Doublet of frasco.
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fiasco m (plural fiascos)
See also edit
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- ^ “fiasco” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
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fiasco n (uncountable)
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singular | ||
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n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) fiasco | fiascoul |
genitive/dative | (unui) fiasco | fiascoului |
vocative | fiascoule |
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian fiasco. Doublet of frasco.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fiasco m (plural fiascos)
Further reading edit
- “fiasco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014