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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
calamity/kəˈlaməti/

▶noun (pl. calamities) an event causing great and often sudden damage or distress.

– derivatives
calamitous adjective,
calamitously adverb.

– origin ME: from OFr. calamite, from L. calamitas.

'calamitous' also found in these Oxford entries:

calamity - -itous - mischievous - portend - portent

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