eureka

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Interjection 1.3.1 Quotations 1.3.1.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 Translations

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[edit] Etymology

From Ancient Greek εὕρηκα (heurēka), “‘I have found’”), perfect active indicative 1st singular of εὑρίσκω (heuriskō), “‘I find’”).

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• Rhymes: -iːkə

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eureka

1. An exclamation indicating sudden discovery.

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• 1821: Eureka! I have found it! What I mean / To say is, not that love is idleness, / But that in love such idleness has been / An accessory, as I have cause to guess. — Byron, Don Juan, 1821
• 1970: A page is turned - eureka, a snatch of tune / is playing itself, the piss-proud syllables / are unveiling a difficult prosody — Peter Porter, The Sanitized Sonnets, in The Last of England, 1970

[edit] Derived terms

• eureka effect
• eureka moment

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