Micronesia

See also: micronesia, micronésia, and Micronésia

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μικρόνησος (mikrónēsos, “small island”) +‎ -ia, from μικρός (mikrós, “small, mimimum”) + νῆσος (nêsos, “island”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmaɪ.kɹəʊˈniː.zi.ə/, /ˌmaɪ.kɹəʊˈniː.ʒə/, /ˌmaɪ.kɹəʊˈniː.ʃə/
• IPA^(key): /ˌmaɪ.kɹoʊˈniː.ʒə/, /ˌmaɪ.kɹoʊˈniː.zi.ə/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -iːʒə

Proper noun

Micronesia

1. One of the geographical subregions of Oceania.
3. A country in Oceania. Official name: Federated States of Micronesia.

Holonyms

• Austronesia
• Oceania

Coordinate terms

• Melanesia
• Polynesia

Translations

geographical region

• Estonian: Mikroneesia
• Georgian: მიკრონეზია (miḳronezia)
• Irish: an Mhicrinéis f
• Latvian: Mikronēzija f
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Mikronesia

  Nynorsk: Mikronesia (nn)

country

• Armenian: Միկրոնեզիա (Mikronezia)
• Bengali: মাইক্রোনেশিয়া (ma'ikroneśiya)
• Breton: Mikronezia
• Catalan: Micronèsia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 密克羅尼西亞／密克罗尼西亚 (zh) (Mìkèluóníxīyà), 密克罗尼西亚 (zh) (Mìkèluóníxīyà), 米克羅尼西亞／米克罗尼西亚, 米克罗尼西亚 (Mìkèluóníxīyà)

• Danish: Mikronesien (da)
• Dutch: Micronesia (nl)
• Esperanto: Mikronezio
• Estonian: Mikroneesia
• Finnish: Mikronesia (fi)
• French: Micronésie (fr)
• Georgian: მიკრონეზია (miḳronezia)
• German: Mikronesien (de)
• Greek: Μικρονησία (el) f (Mikronisía)
• Hungarian: Mikronézia (hu)
• Indonesian: Mikronesia
• Interlingua: Micronesia
• Irish: an Mhicrinéis f
• Italian: Micronesia
• Japanese: ミクロネシア (ja) (Mikuroneshia)
• Latvian: Mikronēzija f
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• Macedonian: Микроне́зија f (Mikronézija)
• Maltese: il-Mikronesja
• Navajo: Eʼeʼaahjí Tónteel bikáaʼgi Kéyah Yázhí dah Ndaaʼeełgo Ałhidadiidzooígíí
• Norman: Micronésie f
• Norwegian: Mikronesiaføderasjonen
• Occitan: Micronesia (oc) f
• Polish: Mikronezja (pl)
• Portuguese: Micronésia (pt)
• Romanian: Micronezia f
• Russian: Микроне́зия (ru) f (Mikronɛ́zija)
• Scots: Micronesie
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Микро̀не̄зија f

  Roman: Mikrònēzija (sh) f

• Spanish: Micronesia (es)
• Swedish: Mikronesien (sv)
• Tagalog: Mikpuluan
• Thai: ไมโครนีเซีย (th) (mai-kroo-nii-siia)
• Turkish: Mikronezya (tr)
• Vietnamese: Mai-crô-nê-xi-a
• Volapük: Smala-Seanuäns (vo)
• Yoruba: Makoronesia

See also

• Palikir
• Countries of the world

Anagrams

• acrimonies, anisomeric, carmoisine

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Italian

Proper noun

Micronesia f

1. Micronesia

Derived terms

• micronesiano

Anagrams

• sinceriamo

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Latin

Proper noun

Micronēsia f sg (genitive Micronēsiae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Micronesia

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Micronēsia
Genitive	Micronēsiae
Dative	Micronēsiae
Accusative	Micronēsiam
Ablative	Micronēsiā
Vocative	Micronēsia
Locative	Micronēsiae

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mikɾoˈnesja/ [mi.kɾoˈne.sja]

Proper noun

Micronesia f

1. Micronesia