Pronounced: high-puh-GOO-zee-uh (alt1: high-puh-GYOO-zee-uh;
alt2: high-puh-GOO-zhee-uh; alt3: high-puh-GYOO-zhee-uh; alt4: high-puh-GOO-zhuh; alt5: high-puh-GYOO-zhuh), noun
Notes: Lots of variant pronunciations, but I didn’t know the word
Yesterday’s word
The word hamartia is “a tragic flaw that brings down a hero”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1800s
Background / Comments
I happen to know this word; our word came from the Greek word harmartia (fault; failure; sin), which came from the Greek verb hamartanein (to miss the mark). The Greek noun is found in the New Testament and is usually translated “sin”.
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