The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*h₂stḗr
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἄστρον“star”
- Latin · derived fromastrum“star”
- Italian · derived fromdisastro
- Middle French · derived fromdesastre
- English todaydisaster
From Middle French desastre, from Italian disastro, from dis- + astro (“star”), from Latin astrum (“star”), from Ancient Greek ἄστρον (ástron, “star”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.
Words from the same roots
Italiandisastro all →
Latinastrum all →
disastrousastral
Ancient Greekἄστρον all →
astronautastralastro-astrognosyastroid
Proto-Indo-European*h₂stḗr all →
starEstherconstellationstarn
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.