- peripeteia (n.)
[peripeteia 词源字典]
- also peripetia, 1590s, from Greek peripeteia "a turn right about; a sudden change" (of fortune, in a tragedy), from peri- "around" (see peri-) + stem of piptein "to fall" (see symptom).[peripeteia etymology, peripeteia origin, 英语词源]