http://wordie.org/words/peripeteia Comments for the word 'Peripeteia' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/words/peripeteia#comments It's not often that I can't spell a word I should know, so here's a memorandum. 'Peripeteia' is from pet- "fall" (as in '<a href="/words/apoptosis">apoptosis</a>' and '<a href="/words/diptote">diptote</a>'), and mnemonically it's what befalls characters in a narrative. It has no relation to what was confusing me, '<a href="/words/peripatetic">peripatetic</a>' from pat- "walk, tread". Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:42:11 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/peripeteia#comments