Pangaea

English

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The breakup of Pangaea.

Alternative forms

• Pangea Primary spelling in American English
• Pangæa

Etymology

From pan- + γαῖα (gaia, “earth, land”), probably after German Pangäa, coined by Alfred Wegener in 1915.

Pronunciation

• pănjē'ə, /pænˈdʒiːə/, X-SAMPA: /p{n"dZi:@/

• Hyphenation: pan‧gae‧a

Proper noun

Pangaea

1. A supercontinent that included all the landmasses of the earth before the Triassic period and that broke up into Laurasia and Gondwana.

Derived terms

• Pangaean

Translations

supercontinent prior to Triassic

• Arabic: بانجيا‏ (banjíya) f
• Bulgarian: Пангея (bg) (Pangeya) f 
• Catalan: Pangea f
• Chinese: 盤古大陸 (Pángǔ dàlù)
• Czech: Pangea (cs) f
• Danish: Pangæa (da)
• Dutch: Pangaea f, Pangea f (popularly written)
• Esperanto: Pangeo
• Finnish: Pangea (fi)
• French: Pangée (fr) f
• German: Pangäa (de) f
• Greek: Παγγαία (el) (Pangaía) f 
• Hebrew: פנגיאה (Pangía) f
• Italian: Pangea (it) f
• Japanese: パンゲア大陸 (Pangea-tairikú)
• Korean: 판게아 대륙 (Pangea daeryuk)

• Latin: Pangaea (la) f
• Lithuanian: Pangėja
• Luxembourgish: Pangäa
• Persian: پانجه​آ (Panjēā)
• Polish: Pangea (pl) f
• Portuguese: Pangéia f
• Russian: Пангея (ru) (Pangéja) f 
• Slovak: Pangea (sk) f
• Slovene: Pangea (sl) f
• Spanish: Pangea (es) f
• Swedish: Pangea (sv)
• Thai: พันเจีย (panjia), ยุคเอกทวีป (yóok èk tá-wêep)
• Turkish: Pangea (tr)
• Vietnamese: Pangaea (vi)
• Walloon: Pandjêye

See also

• Gondwanaland, Gondwana
• Laurasia
• Rodinia

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