Gaea

See also: Gæa

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek Γαῖα (Gaîa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʒiːə/

Proper noun

Gaea

1. (Greek mythology) A Greek goddess, the personification of the earth, and one of the primordial deities from whom all the others descend.
   • 1858, W[illiam] E[wart] Gladstone, “Ilios. The Trojans Compared and Contrasted with the Greeks.”, in Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age. [...] In Three Volumes, volume III, Oxford: At the University Press, →OCLC, page 153:

     While investigating the Greek mythology, we have found reason to suppose that Juno, Ceres, and Gaia are but three different forms of the same original tradition of a divine feminine: of whom Ceres is the Pelasgian copy, Juno the vivid and powerful Hellenic development, and Gaia the original skeleton, retaining nothing of the old character, but having acquired the function of gaol-keeper for perjurors when sent to the other world.

2. Alternative spelling of Gaia.

Alternative forms

• Gaia
• Gæa
• Gea
• Ge

Translations

earth goddess

• Catalan: Gea f
• Cherokee: ᎦᏯ (Gaya)
• Danish: Gaia
• Dutch: Gaia f
• Esperanto: Geo (eo)
• Finnish: Gaia
• French: Gaïa (fr) f
• German: Gaia f
• Greek: Γαία (el) f (Gaía)

  Ancient: Γαῖα f (Gaîa)

• Greenlandic: Gaja
• Hebrew: גאיה f (Gáya)
• Hungarian: Gaia
• Inuktitut: ᒑᔭ (caaya)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: Gaia f, Gáia f
• Italian: Gaia (it) f
• Japanese: ガイア (Gaia)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Gaia f

  Nynorsk: Gaia f

• Polish: Gaja (pl) f
• Portuguese: Gaia (pt) f
• Romanian: Gaia f
• Russian: Ге́я (ru) f (Géja)
• Spanish: Gea (es) f
• Swedish: Gaia

See also

• Pangaea
• Tellus
• Terra

Further reading

• Gaia (mythology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Gaia hypothesis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Gaia philosophy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia