different between fiasco vs travesty

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

Etymology

From French travesti (“disguised, burlesqued”), past participle of travestir (“to disguise”), borrowed from Italian travestire (“to dress up, disguise”), from tra- (“across”) +? vestire (“to dress”), from Latin vesti? (“to clothe, dress”), from Proto-Italic *westis (“clothing”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéstis (“dressing”) from verbal root *wes- (“to dress, clothe”); cognate to English wear. Doublet of transvest.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tr?v??s-t?, tr?v??s-t?, IPA^(key): /?t?æv.?s.ti/, /?t?æv.?s.ti/
• Hyphenation: trav?es?ty

Noun

travesty (plural travesties)

1. An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation.
   • 1845, Thomas De Quincey, William Godwin

     The second edition is not a recast, but absolutely a travesty of the first.

2. A parody or stylistic imitation.
3. (derogatory) A grossly inferior imitation.

   A battlefield trial is a travesty of justice.

4. (colloquial, proscribed) An appalling version of something.

Synonyms

• caricature
• feign

Antonyms

• veracity

Related terms

Translations

Verb

travesty (third-person singular simple present travesties, present participle travestying, simple past and past participle travestied)

1. (transitive) To make a travesty of; to parody.

Further reading

• travesty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• travesty in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• travesty at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “travesty”, in Online Etymology Dictionary