miseria

See also: miséria and misèria

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin miseria (“misfortune”). By surface analysis, misero +‎ -eria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miˈzɛ.rja/
• Rhymes: -ɛrja
• Hyphenation: mi‧sè‧ria

Noun

miseria f (plural miserie)

1. poverty

   Synonyms: indigenza, povertà

2. (usually in the plural) trouble, evil, suffering

   Synonyms: infelicità, male

3. pittance, trifle

   Synonym: sciocchezza

4. (botany) tradescantia

   Synonym: erba miseria

Related terms

• misero
• miserevole
• miserabile
• immiserire
• porca miseria

Anagrams

• riesami

Latin

Etymology

From miser.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /miˈse.ri.a/, [mɪˈs̠ɛriä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /miˈse.ri.a/, [miˈs̬ɛːriä]

Noun

miseria f (genitive miseriae); first declension

1. misfortune

   Synonyms: plāga, calamitās, incommodum, dētrīmentum, clādēs, incommoditās, īnfortūnium, vulnus, cāsus, malum, cruciātus, nūbēs

   Antonyms: commodum, commoditās

2. misery, distress, affliction

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	miseria	miseriae
genitive	miseriae	miseriārum
dative	miseriae	miseriīs
accusative	miseriam	miseriās
ablative	miseriā	miseriīs
vocative	miseria	miseriae

Descendants

• → Catalan: misèria
• → Old French: miserie
  • → English: misery
  • French: misère
    • → English: misère
    • → Romanian: mizerie
• → Italian: miseria
• → Occitan: misèria
• → Polish: mizeria
• → Portuguese: miséria
• → Spanish: miseria

References

• “miseria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “miseria”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• miseria in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• miseria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to comfort in misfortune: consolari aliquem in miseriis
    

Portuguese

Noun

miseria f (plural miserias)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of miséria.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin miseria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miˈseɾja/ [miˈse.ɾja]
• Rhymes: -eɾja
• Syllabification: mi‧se‧ria

Noun

miseria f (plural miserias)

1. misery
2. poverty
3. avarice, greed
4. very small amount

Derived terms

• villa miseria

 

Related terms

• mísero

 

Further reading

• “miseria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10