Scandinavia
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin Scandināvia, from Proto-Germanic *Skadinawjō (“Scadia island”) (compare Old English Sċedeniġ, Old Norse Skáney > Swedish Skåne (“southern tip of Sweden, Scania”)), with the suffix *awjō (“island”) (compare Old English īġ, īeġ (“island”), whence dialectal modern English ey; Old Norse ey (“island”)). Doublet of Scania.
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Scandinavia
- Denmark, Norway, and Sweden collectively and sometimes Finland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands.
- 1987, Jonathan Wylie, The Faroe Islands: Interpretations of History[1]:
- The Faroes are an obscure corner of Scandinavia and, apart from Lapland, Scandinavia is perhaps the most obscure corner of the world, ethnographically speaking.
- 2002, Kenneth R. Evans, Lisa K. Scheer, editors, 2002 AMA Winter Educators’ Conference: Marketing Theory and Applications[2], volume 13, page 423:
- Internet banking has become popular in Finland and other parts of Scandinavia, for a variety of reasons.
- (geographic) The Scandinavian Peninsula.
Hypernyms[edit]
- (group of countries): Nordic countries
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
Denmark, Norway, and Sweden
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Scandinavian Peninsula — see Scandinavian Peninsula
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Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin Scandināvia, from Proto-Germanic *Skadinawjō (“Scadia island”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Scandinavia f
- Scandinavia, specifically:
- (politics, cultural, linguistic, etc.) Denmark, Norway, and Sweden collectively
- (geographic) the Scandinavian Peninsula
Derived terms[edit]
Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- Scadināvia
- Scatināvia
- Scandināuia, Scatināuia, Scadināuia (orthographic variants)
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *Skadinawjō (“Scadia island”), from *awjō (“island”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /skan.diˈnaː.u̯i.a/, [s̠kän̪d̪ɪˈnäːu̯iä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /skan.diˈna.vi.a/, [skän̪d̪iˈnäːviä]
Proper noun[edit]
Scandināvia f sg (genitive Scandināviae); first declension
- Scandinavia
- a large and fertile island in Northern Europe, perhaps Zealand or Scania
Declension[edit]
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Scandināvia |
Genitive | Scandināviae |
Dative | Scandināviae |
Accusative | Scandināviam |
Ablative | Scandināviā |
Vocative | Scandināvia |
Locative | Scandināviae |
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- English: Scandinavia
References[edit]
- “Scandinavia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Scandinavia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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