Word of the Day Archive
Tuesday October 2, 2012
hamartia \hah-mahr-TEE-uh\
, noun:
Tragic flaw.
What is Oedipus' hamartia that leads to his self-fulfilling self-reversal?
-- Laszlo Versényi, Man's Measure
We called it by many different things, such as hubris or hamartia, but given the way you butcher Latin, let's stick with English.
-- Stephanie Draven, The Fever and the Fury
Hamartia stems from the Greek word hamartánein which meant "to err." However, it entered English in the late 1800s.
Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for hamartia
