different between crisis vs hardship

English

Etymology

From Latin crisis, from Ancient Greek ?????? (krísis, “a separating, power of distinguishing, decision, choice, election, judgment, dispute”), from ????? (krín?, “pick out, choose, decide, judge”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?a?s?s/

Noun

crisis (plural crises)

1. A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.
2. An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.
3. A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which point the patient is expected to either recover or die.
4. (psychology) A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life.

5. (drama) A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved.

Derived terms

Related terms

• critic
• critical
• criticize
• critique
• criterion

Translations

Further reading

• crisis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• crisis in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Asturian

Noun

crisis f (plural crisis)

1. crisis

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?k?i.zis/
• Rhymes: -izis

Noun

crisis

1. plural of crisi

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin crisis, from Ancient Greek ?????? (krísis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kri.z?s/
• Hyphenation: cri?sis

Noun

crisis f (plural crises or crisissen, diminutive crisisje n)

1. crisis
2. financial crisis

Derived terms

Related terms

• kritiek
• kritisch

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: krisis

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin crisis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kri.?zis/

Noun

crisis f (oblique plural crisis, nominative singular crisis, nominative plural crisis)

1. crisis, emergency; urgent situation

Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (krísis, “a separating, power of distinguishing, decision, choice, election, judgment, dispute”), from ????? (krín?, “pick out, choose, decide, judge”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?isis/, [?k?i.sis]

Noun

crisis f (plural crisis)

1. crisis
2. attack; fit

Derived terms

• anticrisis
• crisis de comportamiento
• crisis de migraña

Related terms

• crítico

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English hardshipe, equivalent to hard +? -ship.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h??d???p/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h??d???p/
• Hyphenation: hard?ship

Noun

hardship (countable and uncountable, plural hardships)

1. Difficulty or trouble; hard times.

Antonyms

• softship

Translations

Verb

hardship (third-person singular simple present hardships, present participle hardshipping, simple past and past participle hardshipped)

1. (transitive) To treat (a person) badly; to subject to hardships.
   • 1969, Tract Series (issues 96-129, page 529)

     […] an adjustment of the income tax could easily produce the twenty millions without hardshipping any industrious person in the community […]