Accident

Table of contents

1 Etymology 2 Noun 3 Parody 3.1 Translations

Etymology

French accident, from Latin accidens , -dentis, present participle of accidere to happen; ad + cadere to fall. See cadence , case.

Noun

1. Literally, a befalling ; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned , sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency ; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap ; as, to die by an accident

   Quotations

   • Of moving accidents by flood and field. - Shakespeare, Othello, I-iii
   • Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident: It is the very place God meant for thee. - Trench

2. (Grammar): A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.
3. (Heraldry): A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms
4. (Logic): A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute
5. (Logic): A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.
6. Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential ; as, beauty is an accident.

   Quotations

   • This accident, as I call it, of Athens being situated some miles from the sea. - J. P. Mahaffy

7. (Obsolete): Unusual appearance or effect - Chaucer

   Note: Accident, in Law, is equivalent to casus, or such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.

Parody

1. A condition of affairs in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body better. - 1904, The Foolish Dictionary

Translations

• Basque: istripu , ezbehar
• Bulgarian: Злополука
• Danish: uheld
• Dutch: ongeval n, ongeluk n
• Esperanto: akcidento
• Finnish: onnettomuudet
• French: accident m
• German: Unfall
• Greek: ατυχήματα
• Hungarian: baleset
• Ido: acidento
• Indonesian: kecelakaan , musibah (1)
• Italian: incidente
• Japanese: 事故 (じこ , jiko) (1)
• Norwegian: ulykke
• Polish: wypadek m (1)
• Portuguese: acidentes
• Romanian: accident n (1)
• Russian: авария
• Spanish: accidente m
• Swedish: olyckor