🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

vittima

Pronunciation / Transliteration: vit-ti-ma

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Fatality/fəˈtæl.ə.ti/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #4500 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Ci sono state gravi vittime nell'incidente."

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 Latin fatalitas, meaning destiny or death, stemming from fatum (prophecy, doom). It entered Middle French as fatalité before being adopted into English in the late 15th century, initially relating to fate and later shifting specifically to mean death resulting from a disaster or accident.

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