hamartia

英 [hə'mɑːtɪə] 美 [,hɑmɑr'tɪə]

hamartia (n.): "tragic flaw," Greek, literally "fault, failure, guilt, sin" from hamartanein "to fail of one's purpose; to err, sin," originally "to miss the mark," from PIE *hemert- "to miss, fail." "The aspiration must be analogical. The word has no known cognates, but the reconstructed root looks perfectly IE" [Robert Beekes, "Etymological Dictionary of Greek"].

1. There is much dispute about the meaning of this term.: 关于hamartia一词的意思存在很多争议.