miserabile
Italian (Fiorentino)
adj
Definitions
- (literary) Worthy of pity or compassion.
- Pitiful due to poverty, squalor or desolation.
- miserable, poor, destitute
- (by extension) dirty, squalid
- (derogatory) wretched, contemptible, despicable
- meager, paltry, worthless
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin miserābilis suf from Italian misero (bleak, unhappy).
Origin
Italian (Fiorentino)
misero
Gloss
bleak, unhappy
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- miser Latin
- miserum Latin
- miserābilis Latin
- immiserire Italian
- miserabilità Italian
- miserabilmente Italian
- miseramente Italian
- miseria Italian
- misero Italian
- miserável Portuguese
- miserable Catalan, Valencian
- mizer Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan