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by sh1mmer
1396 days ago
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You weren’t far off > The writer J. R. R. Tolkien coined the word by affixing the Greek prefix eu, meaning good, to catastrophe From the New Oxford Dictionary > Catastrophe:
mid 16th century (in the sense
'denouement'):
from Latin catastropha, from Greek
katastrophé 'overturning, sudden turn', from
kata- 'down' + strophe 'turning' (from
'down
strephein 'to turn'). |
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