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  1.                 From en.wiktionary.org:
                    

    ** English

    [Crisis (disambiguation)]

    *** Etymology

    [en] From [en], from [en], from [grc].

    *** Pronunciation

    - [en] - [en] - [en] - [en] - [en]

    *** Noun

    [crises]

    1. A crucial or decisive point or situation ; a turning point . 2. An unstable situation, in political , social , economic or military affair s, especially one involving an impending abrupt change . 3. * [en] 4. * [en] 5. [en] A sudden change in the course of a disease , usually at which point the patient is expected to either recover or die. 6. [en] A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life . 7. [en] A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved .

    **** Derived terms

    {{col|en|acrisia|crisisless|crisitunity|ecocrisis|epicrisis|Eurocrisis|minicrisis|multicrisis|noncrisis|permacrisis|polycrisis|postcrisis|precrisis |oxygen crisis|oxygenation crisis|crisis management|currency crisis|financial crisis|economic crisis|European debt crisis|humanitarian crisis|international crisis|identity crisis|existential crisis|personal crisis|psychological crisis|midlife crisis|quarter-life crisis|Asian songbird crisis|behavioral crisis|climate crisis|crisis actor|crisis center|crisis hotline|crisis intervention|crisis line|crisis response team|crisis-ridden|energy crisis|epistemic crisis|healing crisis|mid-life crisis|psychedelic crisis|renal crisis|replication crisis|scissors crisis|software crisis|budget crisis|Messinian salinity crisis|never waste a crisis|diabetic crisis|constitutional crisis}}

    **** Related terms

    {{col3|en |critic |critical |criticize |critique |criterion}}

    **** Translations

    [crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point]

    - Armenian: [hy] - Bulgarian: [bg] - Catalan: [ca] - Czech: [cs] - Danish: [da] , [da] - Dutch: [nl] , [nl] - Finnish: [fi] - Galician: [gl] - Georgian: [ka] , [ka] , [ka] - German: [de] - Greek: [el] - Hungarian: [hu] - Ido: [io] - Japanese: [ja] - Korean: [ko] - Malayalam: [ml] - Portuguese: [pt] - Romanian: [ro] , [ro] - Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] - Serbo-Croatian: - Slovak: [sk] - Spanish: [es] [trans-bottom]

    [unstable situation in political, social, economic or military affairs]

    - Albanian: [sq] - Arabic: [ar] , [ar] - Armenian: [hy] - Assamese: [as] , [as] , [as] - Azerbaijani: [az] - Belarusian: [be] , [be] [rare] - Bengali: [bn] - Bhojpuri: [bho] - Bhojpuri: [bho] - Bulgarian: [bg] - Burmese: [my] - Catalan: [ca] - Chinese: - Czech: [cs] - Danish: [da] - Dutch: [nl] - Esperanto: [eo] - Estonian: [et] - Finnish: [fi] - French: [fr] - Galician: [gl] - Georgian: [ka] - German: [de] - Greek: [el] - Hebrew: [he] - Hindi: [hi] - Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] - Icelandic: [is] - Ido: [io] - Indonesian: [id] - Italian: [it] - Japanese: [ja] , [ja] - Kannada: [kn] - Kazakh: [kk] - Khmer: [km] - Korean: [ko] - Kurdish: - Kyrgyz: [ky] , [ky] - Lao: [lo] - Latvian: [lv] - Lithuanian: [lt] - Macedonian: [mk] - Malay: [ms] , [ms] - Malayalam: [ml] - Maori: [mi] - Mongolian: - Norwegian: - Pashto: [ps] , [ps] - Persian: - Polish: [pl] - Portuguese: [pt] - Romanian: [ro] - Russian: [ru] - Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd] - Serbo-Croatian: - Slovak: [sk] - Slovene: [sl] - Spanish: [es] - Swedish: [sv] - Tagalog: [tl] - Tajik: [tg] , [tg] - Telugu: [te] - Thai: [th] - Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr] - Turkmen: [tk] - Ukrainian: [uk] - Urdu: [ur] - Uyghur: [ug] - Uzbek: [uz] , [uz] - Vietnamese: [vi] - Yiddish: [yi] - Yoruba: [yo] , [yo] [trans-bottom]

    [sudden change in the course of a disease]

    - Bulgarian: [bg] - Catalan: [ca] - Czech: [cs] - Danish: [da] , [da] - Dutch: [nl] - Finnish: [fi] - German: [de] - Greek: [el] - Irish: [ga] - Italian: [it] - Japanese: [ja] - Korean: [ko] - Portuguese: [pt] - Romanian: [ro] - Russian: [ru] , [ru] - Slovak: [sk] - Spanish: [es] - Turkish: [tr] [trans-bottom]

    [traumatic or stressful change in a person's life]

    - Arabic: [ar] - Catalan: [ca] - Chinese: - Czech: [cs] - Danish: [da] - Faroese: [fo] - Finnish: [fi] - French: [fr] - Galician: [gl] - Georgian: [ka] - German: [de] - Greek: [el] - Hebrew: [he] - Hungarian: [hu] - Icelandic: [is] - Ido: [io] - Italian: [it] - Japanese: [ja] , [ja] - Korean: [ko] - Maori: [mi] , [mi] - Portuguese: [pt] - Romanian: [ro] - Russian: [ru] - Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd] - Slovak: [sk] - Swedish: [sv] , [sv] - Turkish: [tr] [trans-bottom]

    [point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved]

    - Catalan: [ca] - Czech: [cs] - Danish: [da] - Dutch: [nl] - Finnish: [fi] - German: [de] - Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] - Romanian: [ro] - Russian: [ru] - Slovak: [sk] [trans-bottom]

    **** Further reading

    - [R:Webster 1913] - [R:Century 1911] - [R:OneLook] [en]

    ** Asturian

    *** Noun

    [f]

    1. crisis

    ** Catalan

    *** Pronunciation

    - [ca-IPA] - [ca]

    *** Noun

    [ca]

    1. [ca]

    ** Dutch

    *** Etymology

    Borrowed from [nl], from [nl].

    *** Pronunciation

    - [nl] - [nl] - [nl]

    *** Noun

    [f]

    1. [en] 2. financial crisis

    **** Derived terms

    [nl]

    **** Related terms

    - [nl] - [nl]

    **** Descendants

    - [id]

    ** Old French

    *** Etymology

    Borrowed from [fro].

    *** Noun

    [f]

    1. [en] , emergency ; urgent situation

    ** Spanish

    [lang=es]

    *** Etymology

    [es], from [grc].

    *** Pronunciation

    [+< audio:Es-crisis-Ar-Rosario.ogg < a:Argentina>> < audio:Es-am-lat-crisis.ogg < a:Latin America>>]

    *** Noun

    [f]

    1. [en] 2. * [es] 3. attack ; fit

    **** Derived terms

    [es]

    **** Related terms

    [es]

    *** Further reading

    - [R:es:DRAE]