eureka

See also eurêka

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːkə

Interjection

eureka

1. An exclamation indicating sudden discovery.
   • 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

Derived terms

• eureka effect
• eureka moment

Translations

exclamation indicating sudden discovery

• Bulgarian: еврика (bg) (evrika)
• Catalan: eureka (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (no exact term exists) 我發現了！, 我发现了！ (wǒ fāxiàn le), 我找到了！ (wǒ zhǎodào le)

• Czech: heuréka (cs)
• Danish: heureka (da)
• Finnish: heureka (fi)
• French: eurêka (fr)
• German: Heureka
• Greek: εύρηκα (el) (évrika) 

• Hungarian: heuréka (hu)
• Icelandic: það tókst! (is), þar kom það! (is), ég hef fundið það! (is)
• Italian: eureka (it)
• Japanese: キテレツ (ja) (kiteretsu)
• Macedonian: еурека (mk) (euréka)
• Portuguese: eureca! (pt)
• Russian: эврика (ru) (évrika) 
• Spanish: eureka (es)
• Swedish: heureka (sv), eureka (sv)
• Turkish: efreka (tr)

See also

• aha moment
• epiphany

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Dutch

Etymology

From Ancient Greek εὕρηκα (heúrēka, “I have found”), perfect active indicative 1st singular of εὑρίσκω (heúriskō, “I find”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /øːˈreːkaː/

Interjection

eureka

1. eureka

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɛu̯.re.ka/
• Hyphenation: èu‧re‧ka

Interjection

eureka

1. eureka