Re:The great Miyazaki watch of 2022
by sh1mmer on Thursday August 25, 2022 @09:49AM
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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
> 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').
> 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').