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dégringolade | Word of the Day
July 30, 2019
dégringolade
[dey-g
r
a
n
-gaw-
l
a
d
]
noun
1.
a quick deterioration or breakdown, as of a situation or circumstance.
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WORD OF THE DAY
dégringolade
continued...
QUOTES
The economically combatant nation entrenched themselves behind tariffs, played each other tricks with loans, repudiations, sudden inflations and deflations, and no power in the world seemed able to bring them into any concerted action to arrest and stop their common
degringolade
.
-- H. G. Wells,
The Shape of Things to Come
, 1933
ORIGIN
The rare noun
dégringolade
"a quick deterioration or breakdown," comes unchanged from French. The French noun is a derivative of the verb
dégringoler
(earlier
désgringoler
) "to tumble down." The prefix
dé
- (
dés
-) comes from the Latin prefix
dis
- "apart, asunder." The French noun suffix -
ade
ultimately comes from the Latin past participle suffix -
ātus
(-
āta
, -
ātum
). The verb
gringoler
may be a borrowing of Middle Dutch
crinkelen
"to curl, meander."
Dégringolade
entered English by the second half of the 19th century.
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