different between chaos vs fiasco

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (kháos, “vast chasm, void”).

In Early Modern English, used in the sense of the original Greek word. In the meaning "primordial matter" from the 16th century. Figurative usage in the sense "confusion, disorder" from the 17th century. The technical sense in mathematics and science dates from the 1960s.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ke?.?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ke?.?s/
• Rhymes: -e??s

Noun

chaos (usually uncountable, plural chaoses)

1. The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.
2. Any state of disorder; a confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.
3. (mathematics) A behaviour of iterative non-linear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.
4. (fantasy) One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to law.
5. (obsolete) A vast chasm or abyss.
6. (obsolete, rare) A given medium; a space in which something exists or lives; an environment.
   • , II.ii.3:

     What is the centre of the earth? is it pure element only, as Aristotle decrees, inhabited (as Paracelsus thinks) with creatures whose chaos is the earth: or with fairies, as the woods and waters (according to him) are with nymphs, or as the air with spirits?

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:disorder

Antonyms

• (classical cosmogony): cosmos
• (state of disorder): order

Derived terms

Related terms

• chaotropic
• chaotropism

Translations

See also

• entropy
• discord
• capricious

Anagrams

• Socha, oshac

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch chaos, from Middle Dutch caos, from Latin chaos, from Ancient Greek ???? (kháos).

Noun

chaos (uncountable)

1. chaos (disorder)
2. (cosmogony) primordial disorder

Czech

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (kháos, “vast chasm, void”).

Noun

chaos m

1. chaos

Declension

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch caos, from Latin chaos, from Ancient Greek ???? (kháos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xa?.?s/
• Hyphenation: cha?os

Noun

chaos m (uncountable)

1. chaos (disorder)

   Synonyms: baaierd, rommel, wanorde, warboel

2. (cosmogony) primordial disorder

Antonyms

• netheid
• orde

Derived terms

• chaostheoretisch
• chaostheorie
• chaotisch

Descendants

• Afrikaans: chaos
• ? West Frisian: gaos
• ? Indonesian: kaos

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin chaos, from Ancient Greek ???? (kháos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.o/
• Rhymes: -o

Noun

chaos m (uncountable)

1. chaos

Further reading

• “chaos” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (kháos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?k?a.os/, [?k?ä?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ka.os/, [?k???s]

Noun

chaos n sg (genitive cha?); second declension

1. Alternative letter-case form of Chaos

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type), singular only.

References

• chaos in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• chaos in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• chaos in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• chaos in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Polish

Etymology

From Latin chaos, from Ancient Greek ???? (kháos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xa.?s/

Noun

chaos m inan

1. chaos

Declension

Derived terms

• chaotyczny

Further reading

• chaos in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fiasco (“bottle, flask”), from Late Latin flasca, flasc? (“bottle, container”), from Frankish *flaska (“bottle, flask”) from Proto-Germanic *flask? (“bottle”); see flask. “Failure” sense comes through French faire fiasco from Italian theatrical slang far fiasco (literally “to make a bottle”), of uncertain origin; perhaps from an expression fare il fiasco, meaning to play a game with the forfeit that the loser will buy the next bottle or round of drinks.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi?æs.k??/

Noun

fiasco (plural fiascos or fiascoes)

1. A sudden or unexpected failure.
2. A ludicrous or humiliating situation. Some effort that went quite wrong.

   Synonym: debacle

3. A wine bottle in a (usually straw) jacket.

Translations

See also

• fiasci (hypercorrect plural)
• fiaschi (Italianate plural; often considered pedantic)

References

• Concise Oxford Dictionary, s. v. fiasco.
• Compact Oxford English Dictionary on-line.
• The Word Detective, Issue of Oct 30, 2001.

Further reading

• Fiasco (bottle) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Facios, cafiso, fascio-

Catalan

Etymology

From Italian fiasco

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /fi?as.ko/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /fi?as.ku/

Noun

fiasco m (plural fiascos)

1. fiasco (situation)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fiasco. Doublet of flasque.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fjas.ko/

Noun

fiasco m (plural fiascos)

1. fiasco (situation)
2. fiasco (bottle)

Further reading

• “fiasco” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin flasco, flasca (“bottle, container”), from Old Frankish *flaska (“bottle, flask”), from Proto-Germanic *flask? (“bottle”), from Proto-Germanic *flehtan? (“to plait”), from Proto-Indo-European *plek- (“to weave, braid”). Akin to Old High German flasca (“flask”), Old English flasce, flaxe (“bottle”). More at flask.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fjas.ko/

Noun

fiasco m (plural fiaschi)

1. flask
2. fiasco
3. flagon
4. (figuratively) debacle, failure

Related terms

• fiasca
• fiaschetteria

Anagrams

• fascio, fasciò, sfocai, sfocia

Descendants

• ? English: fiasco
• ? French: fiasco
• ? Portuguese: fiasco
• ? Spanish: fiasco

Portuguese

Etymology

From Italian fiasco. Doublet of frasco.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?fj.a?.ku/
• Hyphenation: fi?as?co

Noun

fiasco m (plural fiascos)

1. fiasco (ludicrous or humiliating situation)

   Synonym: fracasso

References

See also

• frasco
• chasco

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fiasco. Doublet of frasco.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fjasko/, [?fjas.ko]

Noun

fiasco m (plural fiascos)

1. fiasco

   Synonym: fracaso

Further reading

• “fiasco” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.