different between fiasco vs plaudits

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.

English

Noun

plaudits

1. (often used in plural) plural of plaudit
   • 1860, Henry Brooke, William Peter Strickland, Charles Kingsley, The Fool of Quality: Or, The History of Henry, Earl of Moreland, page 171:

     As soon as they had finished, the whole assembly could scarce refrain from breaking forth in loud plaudits, as at the public theatre ; and a humming of mixed voices and patting feet was heard throughout.