# fiasco
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fiasco (“bottle, flask”), from Late Latin flasca, flascō (“bottle, container”), from Frankish *flaskā (“bottle, flask”) from Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ (“bottle”); see flask. “Failure” sense comes through French faire fiasco from Italian theatrical slang far fiasco (literally “to make a bottle”), of uncertain origin; perhaps from an expression fare il fiasco, meaning to play a game with the forfeit that the loser will buy the next bottle or round of drinks. Doublet of flacon, flagon, and flask.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fiˈæs.kəʊ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)

### Noun

fiasco (plural fiascos or fiascoes or fiaschi or (hypercorrect) fiasci)
* A sudden or unexpected failure.
* A ludicrous or humiliating situation. Some effort that went quite wrong.
    Synonym: debacle
* A wine bottle in a (usually straw) jacket.

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “fiasco”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
* Concise Oxford Dictionary, s. v. fiasco.
* Compact Oxford English Dictionary on-line.
* The Word Detective, Issue of Oct 30, 2001.

### Further reading

* Fiasco (bottle) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Facios, cafiso, fascio-

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fiasco.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [fiˈas.ku]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [fiˈas.ko]

### Noun

fiasco m (plural fiascos)
* fiasco (situation)

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from French fiasco, from Italian fiasco

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fiˈɑs.koː/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: fi‧as‧co
* Rhymes: -ɑskoː

### Noun

fiasco n (plural fiasco's, diminutive fiascootje n)
* fiasco, debacle

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: fiasko

### References

* van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “fiasco”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fiasco. Doublet of flacon and flasque.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fjas.ko/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

fiasco m (plural fiascos)
* fiasco (situation)
* fiasco (bottle)

### Further reading

* “fiasco”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Etymology

From Late Latin flascō, flasca (“bottle, container”), from Old Frankish *flaska (“bottle, flask”), from Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ (“bottle”), from Proto-Germanic *flehtaną (“to plait”), from Proto-Indo-European *plek- (“to weave, braid”). Akin to Old High German flasca (“flask”), Old English flasce, flaxe (“bottle”). Doublet of flacone. More at flask.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfja.sko/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -asko
* Hyphenation: fià‧sco

### Noun

fiasco m (plural fiaschi)
* flask
* fiasco
* flagon
* (figurative) debacle, failure

#### Related terms

* fiasca
* fiaschetteria

#### Descendants

* → Danish: fiasko
* → English: fiasco
* → French: fiasco
* → Polish: fiasko
* → Portuguese: fiasco
* → Spanish: fiasco
* → Swedish: fiasko
* → Turkish: fiyasko

### Anagrams

* cafiso, fascio, fasciò, sfocai, sfocia

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fiasco, from Late Latin flascō. Doublet of frasco.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /fiˈas.ku/ [fɪˈas.ku], (faster pronunciation) /ˈfjas.ku/
* (Brazil) IPA: /fiˈas.ku/ [fɪˈas.ku], (faster pronunciation) /ˈfjas.ku/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /fiˈaʃ.ku/ [fɪˈaʃ.ku], (faster pronunciation) /ˈfjaʃ.ku/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /fiˈas.ko/ [fɪˈas.ko], (faster pronunciation) /ˈfjas.ko/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈfjaʃ.ku/
* Rhymes: (Brazil) -asku, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -aʃku
* Hyphenation: fi‧as‧co

### Noun

fiasco m (plural fiascos)
* fiasco (ludicrous or humiliating situation)
    Synonym: fracasso

### See also

* frasco
* chasco

### References

* ↑ “fiasco”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fiasco. Doublet of flacon.

### Noun

fiasco n (uncountable)
* fiasco.

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fiasco. Doublet of frasco.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfjasko/ [ˈfjas.ko]
* Rhymes: -asko
* Syllabification: fias‧co

### Noun

fiasco m (plural fiascos)
* fiasco
    Synonym: fracaso

### Further reading

* “fiasco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10