Latin

Noun

calamitās f ‎(genitive calamitātis); third declension

1. loss, damage, harm
2. misfortune, disaster
3. military defeat
4. blight, crop failure

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

References

• 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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “calamitas”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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