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ca⋅lam⋅i⋅ty

  [kuh-lam-i-tee]
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–noun, plural -ties.
1. a great misfortune or disaster, as a flood or serious injury.
2. grievous affliction; adversity; misery: the calamity of war.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME calamite < MF < L calamitāt- (s. of calamitās), perh. akin to incolumitās safety

Synonyms:
1. reverse, blow, catastrophe, cataclysm; mischance, mishap. See disaster.
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ca·lam·i·ty   (kə-lām'ĭ-tē)   
n.   pl. ca·lam·i·ties

  1. An event that brings terrible loss, lasting distress, or severe affliction; a disaster: A hurricane would be a calamity for this low-lying coastal region.

  2. Dire distress resulting from loss or tragedy.


[Middle English calamite, from Old French, from Latin calamitās.]
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Word Origin & History

calamity 
c.1425, from M.Fr. calamite, from L. calamitatem (nom. calamitus) "damage, disaster, adversity," origin obscure. L. writers associated it with calamus "straw," but it is perhaps from a lost root preserved in incolumis "uninjured."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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