🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

Todesfall

Pronunciation / Transliteration: Todesfall

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Fatality/fəˈtæl.ə.ti/
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Bei dem Unfall gab es keine Todesfälle."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An occurrence of death resulting from an accident, war, disease, or disaster.

    "The severe storm caused widespread damage, but fortunately, there were no reported fatalities."
  2. 2

    The deadliness or the number of deaths caused by a particular event, disease, or condition.

    "Medical researchers are working to lower the fatality rate of the newly discovered virus."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin 'fatalitas', stemming from 'fatalis' meaning 'destined' or 'deadly', based on 'fatum' (fate or oracle). Entering English in the late 15th century, the term initially carried connotations of destiny or inevitability before shifting predominantly to denote a death resulting from an accident, disaster, or war.

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