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peripeteia (n.)
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
).