misère
French
noun
Definitions
- misery
- poverty
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin miseria (misfortune, wretchedness).
Origin
Latin
miseria
Gloss
misfortune, wretchedness
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- misère English
- misääri Finnish
- miseria Latin
- Misere German
- miseria Italian
- miséreux French
- мизерный Russian
- miseria Spanish, Castilian
- miséria Portuguese
- mizeria Polish
- misere Norwegian Nynorsk
- miserie Old French
- misèria Catalan, Valencian
- mizero Ido
- Misär Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- mëshirë Albanian
- misèria Occitan