Antarctica

See also: antarctica and antárctica

English

Wikivoyage

Antarctica in a satellite photo

Etymology

From New Latin Antarctica, from Ancient Greek ἀνταρκτικός (antarktikós), from ἀντ- (ant-, “ant-, against, opposed”) + ἀρκτικός (arktikós, “Arctic”), from Ancient Greek ἄρκτος (árktos, “bear”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌænˈtɑː(k)tɪkə/, /ˌænˈɑːtɪkə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ænˈtɑɹ(k)tɪkə/, [ɛəˈɾ̃ɑɹɾɪkə]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /enˈtɐːktɪkə/

• Audio (US)

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Proper noun

Antarctica

2. The southernmost continent, south of the Southern Ocean, containing the South Pole.

Usage notes

• Although it is a separate continent, Antarctica is sometimes categorized under Oceania.

Related terms

• Antarctic
• Antarctican

Translations

southernmost continent

• Acehnese: Antartika
• Afrikaans: Antarktika
• Albanian: Antarktidë f
• Amharic: አንታርክቲካ (ʾäntarkətika)
• Arabic: أَنْتَارْكِتِيكَا (ar) f (ʔantārkitīkā)

  Egyptian Arabic: القطب الجنوبي m (el-quṭb el-ganūbi), أنتارتكا f (ʔantārteka)

• Aragonese: Antarctida f
• Armenian: Անտարկտիդա (hy) (Antarktida) (the continent), Անտարկտիկա (hy) (Antarktika) (the region)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܢܛܵܪܬܝܼܩܵܐ f (Ānṭartīqa)
• Asturian: L'Antártida (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: Antarktida (az)
• Bashkir: Антарктида (Antarktida)
• Basque: Antartika (eu)
• Bavarian: Antarktika
• Belarusian: Антаркты́да f (Antarktýda) (the continent), Анта́рктыка f (Antárktyka) (the region)
• Bengali: আন্টার্কটিকা (anṭarkṭika)
• Bikol Central: Antartika
• Bislama: Antarktik
• Breton: Antarktika
• Bulgarian: Антаркти́да (bg) f (Antarktída) (the continent), Анта́рктика f (Antárktika) (the region)
• Burmese: အန္တာတိက (antati.ka.)
• Buryat: Антарктида (Antarktida)
• Carpathian Rusyn: Антарктіда f (Antarktida)
• Catalan: Antàrtida (ca) f
• Cebuano: Antartika
• Central Franconian: Süüdpool
• Chechen: Антарктида (Antarktida)
• Cherokee: ᏧᏁᏍᏓᎸ (tsunesdalv)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 南極洲／南极洲 (zh) (Nánjízhōu) (the continent), 南極／南极 (zh) (nánjí) (the region)

• Chuvash: Антаркти́да (Ant̬arktída)
• Cornish: Antarktika
• Corsican: Antartide m
• Crimean Tatar: Antarktida
• Czech: Antarktida (cs) f
• Danish: Antarktis (da)
• Dutch: Antarctica (nl) n
• Dzongkha: ཨེན་ཊཱག་ཊི་ཀ་ (en ṭāg ṭi ka)
• Eastern Mari: Антарктиде (Antarktide)
• Esperanto: Antarkto (eo)
• Estonian: Antarktis, Lõunamanner (figurative)
• Extremaduran: Antáltia f
• Faroese: Antarktis
• Finnish: Etelämanner (fi), Antarktis (fi), Etelänapamanner (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: Antartica f
• French: Antarctique (fr) m
• Friulian: Antartic m
• Galician: Antártida (gl)
• Georgian: ანტარქტიდა (anṭarkṭida)
• German: Antarktika (de) f
• Greek: Ανταρκτική (el) f (Antarktikí)
• Greenlandic: Qalasersuaq Kujalleq
• Guaraní: Antártida
• Gujarati: ઍન્ટાર્કટિકા (ěnṭārkaṭikā)
• Haitian Creole: Antatik
• Hawaiian: ʻAneʻālika
• Hebrew: אַנְטַרְקְטִיקָה f (antárqtíqa)
• Hindi: अंटार्कटिका (aṇṭārkaṭikā)
• Hungarian: Antarktisz (hu), Antarktika (hu)
• Icelandic: Suðurskautslandið (is) n, Suðurheimskautslandið n, Antarktíka (is) f, Suðurskautsálfa (is) f
• Ido: Antarktika
• Igbo: Antarctica
• Ilocano: Antartika
• Indonesian: Antartika (id), Antarktika
• Ingush: Антарктида (Antarktida)
• Interlingua: Antarctica
• Irish: Antartaice f
• Italian: Antartide (it)
• Jamaican Creole: Antaatika
• Japanese: 南極 (ja) (なんきょく, nankyoku) (the region), 南極大陸 (なんきょくたいりく, nankyoku tairiku) (the continent)
• Javanese: Antartika
• Kabiyé: Antarɩtiki
• Kabyle: Antraktika
• Kalmyk: Антарктик (Antarktik)
• Kannada: ಅಂಟಾರ್ಕ್ಟಿಕ (aṇṭārkṭika)
• Karachay-Balkar: Антарктида (Antarktida)
• Karakalpak: Antarktika
• Kashubian: Antarktida f
• Kazakh: Антарктида (Antarktida)
• Khmer: អង់តាទិក (ʼɑngtaatɨk)
• Komi-Permyak: Антарктида (Antarkťida)
• Korean: 남극(南極) (ko) (namgeuk) (the region), 남극대륙 (ko) (namgeukdaeryuk) (the continent)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Antarktîka (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Антарктида (Antarktida)
• Ladin: please add this translation if you can
• Ladino: Antartika
• Lao: ອັນຕາກຕິກ (lo) (ʼan tāk tik)
• Latin: Antarctica
• Latvian: Antarktīda f, Antarktika f
• Lezgi: Антарктида (Antarktida)
• Ligurian: Antartide m
• Limburgish: Antarctica n
• Lithuanian: Antarktida (lt)
• Livvi: Antarktidu
• Lombard: Antartid m
• Low German:

  German Low German: Antarktika f

• Luxembourgish: Antarktis (lb) f
• Macedonian: Анта́рктик m (Antárktik)
• Malagasy: Antartika (mg)
• Malay: Antartika (ms)
• Malayalam: അന്റാർട്ടിക്ക (anṟāṟṭṭikka)
• Maltese: Antartika
• Manx: Antarctagh f
• Maori: Te Tiri o Te Moana
• Marathi: अंटार्क्टिका (aṇṭārkṭikā)
• Minangkabau: Antarktika
• Mingrelian: ანტარქტიდა (anṭarkṭida)
• Mirandese: Antártica f, Antártida f
• Mongolian: Антарктид (mn) (Antarktid)
• Nahuatl: Antartida
• Navajo: Shádiʼááhjí Honeezkʼazii, Shádiʼááhjí kéyah yistinígíí
• Neapolitan: Antartide m
• Norman: Antarctique m
• North Frisian: Antarktikaa
• Northern Sami: Antárktis
• Northern Sotho: Antarctica
• Northwestern Ojibwa: Mikwam-zhaawanong-aki
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Antarktika

  Nynorsk: Antarktika

• Occitan: Antartida (oc) f
• Odia: ଆଣ୍ଟର୍କଟିକା (aṇṭôrkôṭika)
• Ossetian: Антарктидӕ (Antarktidæ)
• Papiamentu: Antartica f
• Persian: جنوبگان (fa) (jonubegân)
• Picard: Intarctike
• Piedmontese: Antàrtide m
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: Antarktida
• Polish: Antarktyda (pl) f
• Pontic Greek: Ανταρκτικήν (Antarktikín)
• Portuguese: Antártica (pt) f, Antártida (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਅੰਟਾਰਕਟਿਕਾ (aṇṭārkaṭikā)
• Quechua: Antartika
• Romanian: Antarctica, Antarctida f
• Russian: Антаркти́да (ru) f (Antarktída) (the continent), Анта́рктика (ru) f (Antárktika) (the region)
• Rwanda-Rundi: Antarigitika
• Samoan: Anetatika
• Samogitian: Antarktėda f
• Santali: ᱟᱱᱴᱟᱨᱠᱚᱴᱤᱠᱟ (anṭarkôṭika)
• Sardinian: Antàrticu m
• Saterland Frisian: Antarktikoa
• Scots: Antarcticae
• Scottish Gaelic: Antartaig f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Антарктик m

  Roman: Antarktik (sh) m

• Shona: Antarctica
• Sicilian: Antàrtidi m
• Silesian: Antarktyda f
• Sinhalese: ඇන්ටාක්ටිකාව (ænṭākṭikāwa)
• Slovak: Antarktída (sk) f
• Slovene: Antárktika (sl) f
• Somali: Antarktika
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Antarktika f

  Upper Sorbian: Antarktika (hsb) f

• Spanish: Antártida (es)
• Sundanese: Antartika
• Swahili: Antaktika
• Swedish: Antarktis (sv)
• Tagalog: Antarctica
• Tajik: Антарктида (tg) (Antarktida)
• Tamil: அந்தாட்டிக்கா (antāṭṭikkā)
• Tarantino: Antartide m
• Tatar: Антарктида (Antarktida)
• Telugu: అంటార్కిటికా (te) (aṇṭārkiṭikā)
• Tetum: Antártida
• Thai: แอนตาร์กติกา (ɛn-dtáak-dtì-gâa)
• Tibetan: ལྷོ་མཐའི་གླིང (lho mtha'i gling)
• Tigrinya: ኣንታርቲካ (ʾantartika)
• Tongan: ʻAnetātika
• Tsonga: Antakthika
• Tulu: ಅಂಟಾರ್ಕ್ಟಿಕ (aṇṭārkṭika)
• Turkish: Antarktika (tr)
• Turkmen: Antarktika, Antarktida (tk) (the continent)
• Ukrainian: Антаркти́да (uk) f (Antarktýda) (the continent), Анта́рктика (uk) f (Antárktyka) (the region)
• Urdu: انٹارکٹکا m (aṇṭārkṭikā)
• Uzbek: Antarktida (uz)
• Venetian: Antartide m
• Veps: Antarktid
• Vietnamese: Châu Nam Cực (洲南極)
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Võro: Antarktis
• Votic: please add this translation if you can
• Walloon: Antartike (wa) m
• Waray-Waray: Antartika
• Welsh: Antarctig f
• West Flemish: Antarctica n
• West Frisian: Antarktika n
• Wolof: Dottub Bëj-saalum (wo)
• Yakut: Антарктика (Antarktika)
• Yiddish: אַנטאַרקטיקאַ (antarktika)
• Yoruba: Antárktìkà
• Zazaki: Antarktika
• Zealandic: Antartica
• Zhuang: Namzgigcouh
• Zulu: i-Antaktika

See also

• (continents) continent; Africa, America (North America, Central America, South America), Antarctica, Asia, Europe, Oceania ^{(Category: en:Continents)}
• Category:Antarctic English
• ant-
• Arctic
• Arctic Circle

Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin Antarctica. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑnˈtɑr(k).ti.kaː/, /ɑntˈɑr(k).ti.kaː/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: Ant‧arc‧ti‧ca

Proper noun

Antarctica n

1. Antarctica

Derived terms

• Antarctisch
• antarctisch

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /anˈtark.ti.ka/, [än̪ˈt̪ärkt̪ɪkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /anˈtark.ti.ka/, [än̪ˈt̪ärkt̪ikä]

Proper noun

Antarctica f sg (genitive Antarcticae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Antarctica (a continent)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Antarctica
Genitive	Antarcticae
Dative	Antarcticae
Accusative	Antarcticam
Ablative	Antarcticā
Vocative	Antarctica

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [anˈtark.tika]

Proper noun

Antarctica f

1. Antarctica (a continent)

Declension

declension of Antarctica (singular only)

	singular
f gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) Antarctică	Antarctica
genitive/dative	(unei) Antarctici	Antarcticii
vocative	Antarctică, Antarctico

See also

• (continents) continent; Africa, America (America de Nord, America de Sud), Antarctica, Asia, Europa, Oceania ^{(Category: ro:Continents)}