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ατυχία
misfortune /a.tiˈçi.a/
nounC1#3479 most common
Also: bad luck, mishap
Example sentences
Είχα ατυχία σήμερα.
I had bad luck today.
Η ατυχία τον ακολουθεί παντού.
Misfortune follows him everywhere.
Ήταν μεγάλη ατυχία που χάσαμε το τρένο.
It was a great piece of bad luck that we missed the train.
Οι ατυχίες του τελευταίου χρόνου τον έκαναν πιο δυνατό.
The misfortunes of the last year made him stronger.
Κατά ειρωνική ατυχία, η ομπρέλα του έσπασε ακριβώς τη στιγμή που άρχισε να βρέχει.
By ironic misfortune, his umbrella broke at the exact moment it started to rain.
Η ατυχία που τον βρήκε δεν οφειλόταν σε δική του αμέλεια, αλλά σε μια αλυσίδα απρόβλεπτων συγκυριών.
The misfortune that befell him was not due to his own negligence, but to a chain of unpredictable circumstances.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | η ατυχία | οι ατυχίες |
| Genitive | της ατυχίας | των ατυχιών |
| Accusative | την ατυχία | τις ατυχίες |
| Vocative | ατυχία | ατυχίες |
Word family
τύχηluck, fortune, chanceευτυχίαhappiness, good fortune
άτυχοςunlucky
τυχαίοςrandom, accidentalατυχώto fail, to be unlucky
Etymology
Ατυχία comes from Ancient Greek, built from the negative prefix α- (not, without) attached to τύχη (luck, fortune, chance) plus the abstract-noun suffix -ία. Τύχη itself was personified in Greek myth as Tyche, the goddess of fortune. The root's deeper origin is uncertain, so no reconstructed Indo-European ancestor is given here.
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