calamity

• n. 災難；不幸な出来事
• n.（災難）人名；（英）Calamity.

calamus（葦）から。力不足、挫折を指す。

calamity (n.)

early 15c., from Middle French calamite (14c.), from Latin calamitatem (nominative calamitas) "damage, loss, failure; disaster, misfortune, adversity," origin obscure. Early etymologists associated it with calamus "straw" (see shawm); but it is perhaps from a lost root preserved in incolumis "uninjured," from PIE *kle-mo-, from base *kel- (1) "to strike, cut" (see holt).

1. He described drugs as the greatest calamity of the age.

彼は麻薬をこの時代の最大の災いと呼んでいる。

2.The frost last week was a great calamity to the citrus industry.

先週の霜は柑橘栽培業にとって大きな災難だった。

3.The marriage proved to be the greatest calamity of his life.

事実はこの結婚が彼の一生の中で最大の不幸であることを証明している。

4.The recent flooding in the south was a calamity .

最近の南方の洪水は災難だった。

5.The attack on Pearl Harbor was a crushing calamity .

真珠湾奇襲（米軍にとって）は壊滅的な災難だった。