Polynesia
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek πολύς (polús, “many”) + νῆσος (nêsos, “island”); according to Moon Handbooks Tahiti, "the term Polynesia was coined by Charles de Brosses in 1756 and applied to all the Pacific islands. The present restricted use was proposed by Dumont d'Urville during a famous lecture at the Geographical Society in Paris in 1831."
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Polynesia
- Part of Oceania including Easter Island, Hawaii, New Zealand, and most of the islands between them.
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
part of Oceania
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Finnish[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Polynesia
Declension[edit]
| Inflection of Polynesia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Polynesia | — | |
| genitive | Polynesian | — | |
| partitive | Polynesiaa | — | |
| illative | Polynesiaan | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Polynesia | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Polynesia | — |
| gen. | Polynesian | ||
| genitive | Polynesian | — | |
| partitive | Polynesiaa | — | |
| inessive | Polynesiassa | — | |
| elative | Polynesiasta | — | |
| illative | Polynesiaan | — | |
| adessive | Polynesialla | — | |
| ablative | Polynesialta | — | |
| allative | Polynesialle | — | |
| essive | Polynesiana | — | |
| translative | Polynesiaksi | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| abessive | Polynesiatta | — | |
| comitative | — | — | |
Latin[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Polynēsia f (genitive Polynēsiae); first declension
Inflection[edit]
First declension, with locative.
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| Nominative | Polynēsia |
| Genitive | Polynēsiae |
| Dative | Polynēsiae |
| Accusative | Polynēsiam |
| Ablative | Polynēsiā |
| Vocative | Polynēsia |
| Locative | Polynēsiae |
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Proper Noun[edit]
Polynesia
Derived terms[edit]
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Proper Noun[edit]
Polynesia
Derived terms[edit]
Categories:
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English 5-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English 4-syllable words
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English words suffixed with -ia
- en:Oceania
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish kulkija-type nominals
- Finnish uncountable nouns
- Latin lemmas
- Latin proper nouns
- Latin feminine nouns
- Latin first declension nouns
- Latin feminine nouns in the first declension
- New Latin
- Latin singularia tantum
- la:Place names
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål proper nouns
- nb:Oceania
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk proper nouns
- nn:Oceania
