miseria
Italian (Fiorentino)
/miˈzɛ.rja/
noun
Definitions
- poverty
- (often) trouble, evil, suffering
- pittance, trifle
- (botany) tradescantia
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin miseria (misfortune, wretchedness) suffix 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
- miseria Latin
- miserum Latin
- immiserire Italian
- miserabile Italian
- miseramente Italian
- misero Italian
- misère French
- miseria Spanish, Castilian
- miséria Portuguese
- mizeria Polish
- miserie Old French
- misèria Catalan, Valencian
- mizer Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- mizero Ido
- mëshirë Albanian
- misèria Occitan