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You weren’t far off > The writer J. R. R. Tolkien coined the word by affixing the Greek prefix eu, meaning good, to catastrophe From the New Oxford Dictionary
by sh1mmer 4y ago
You weren’t far off
> The writer J. R. R. Tolkien coined the word by affixing the Greek prefix eu, meaning good, to catastrophe
From the New Oxford Dictionary
> Catastrophe:
mid 16th century (in the sense
'denouement'):
from Latin catastropha, from Greek
katastrophé 'overturning, sudden turn', from
kata- 'down' + strophe 'turning' (from
'down
strephein 'to turn').