Scandinavia

English

Scandinavia (red) and the Nordic countries (red, orange, and yellow)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Scandināvia, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *Skaþinawjō (“Scadia island”) (compare Old English Scedenig, Old Norse Skáney 'southern tip of Sweden'), from *-aujo 'island' (compare (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English ī(e)g 'island', Old Norse ey 'island').

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skændɪˈneɪvi.ə/
• Rhymes: -eɪviə

Proper noun

Scandinavia

1. Denmark, Norway, and Sweden collectively.
2. (geographic) The Scandinavian Peninsula

Hypernyms

• (group of countries): Nordic countries

Derived terms

• Scandinavian
• Scandinavism

Translations

Denmark, Norway, and Sweden

• Arabic: إِسْكَنْدِينَافِيَا f (ʔiskandīnāfiyā)
• Armenian: Սկանդինավիա (Skandinavia)
• Asturian: Escandinavia f
• Breton: Skandinavia, Lec’hlenn
• Catalan: Escandinàvia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 斯堪的納維亞／斯堪的纳维亚 (zh) (Sīkāndínàwéiyà), 斯堪的纳维亚 (zh) (Sīkāndìnàwéiyà)

• Cornish: Skandinavi
• Czech: Skandinávie (cs) f
• Danish: Skandinavien
• Dutch: Scandinavië (nl)
• Esperanto: Skandinavio (eo)
• Faroese: Skandinavia f
• Finnish: Skandinavia (fi)
• French: Scandinavie (fr) f
• Galician: Escandinavia f
• Georgian: სკანდინავია (sḳandinavia)
• German: Skandinavien (de) n
• Greek: Σκανδιναβία (el) f (Skandinavía)
• Hawaiian: Sekanedinawia
• Hiligaynon: Eskandinabya
• Hungarian: Skandinávia (hu)
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• Icelandic: Skandinavía (is) f
• Ido: Skandinavia (io)
• Irish: Críoch Lochlann f
• Italian: Scandinavia (it)
• Japanese: スカンディナヴィア (Sukandinavia), スカンジナビア (Sukanjinabia)
• Korean: 스칸디나비아 (Seukandinabia)
• Latin: Scandinavia f
• Latvian: Skandināvija f
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: Scandinavië

  German Low German: Skandinavien n

• Macedonian: Скандинавија f (Skandinavija)
• Manx: Loghlin f
• Norwegian: Skandinavia
• Persian: اسکاندیناوی (fa) (eskândinâvi)
• Polish: Skandynawia (pl)
• Portuguese: Escandinávia (pt) f
• Russian: Скандина́вия (ru) f (Skandinávija)
• Scottish Gaelic: Lochlann m or f, Scànnanàibhia
• Spanish: Escandinavia (es) f
• Swedish: Skandinavien (sv)
• Turkish: İskandinavya
• Ukrainian: Скандина́вія f (Skandynávija)
• Welsh: Llychlyn f, Sgandinafia f

Scandinavian Peninsula — see Scandinavian Peninsula

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Translations to be checked

• Maltese: ^{(please verify)} Skandinavja f, ^{(please verify)} l-Iskandinavja f
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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Scandināvia, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *Skaþinawjō (“Scadia island”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skan.diˈna.vja/, [s̪kän̪d̪iˈn̺äːvjä]
• Rhymes: -avja
• Hyphenation: Scan‧di‧nà‧via

Proper noun

Scandinavia f

1. Scandinavia, specifically:
   1. (politics, cultural, linguistic, etc.) Denmark, Norway, and Sweden collectively.
   2. (geographic) The Scandinavian Peninsula

Derived terms

• scandinavo

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Latin

Alternative forms

• Scadināvia
• Scatināvia
• Scandināuia, Scatināuia, Scadināuia (orthographic variants)

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *Skaþinawjō (“Scadia island”), from *awjō (“island”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /skan.diˈnaː.u̯i.a/, [s̠kän̪d̪ɪˈnäːu̯iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /skan.diˈna.vi.a/, [skän̪d̪iˈnäːviä]

Proper noun

Scandināvia f sg (genitive Scandināviae); first declension

1. Scandinavia
2. a large and fertile island in Northern Europe, perhaps Zealand or Scania

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Scandināvia
Genitive	Scandināviae
Dative	Scandināviae
Accusative	Scandināviam
Ablative	Scandināviā
Vocative	Scandināvia
Locative	Scandināviae

Synonyms

• Scandia

Derived terms

• scandināvicus

Descendants

• English: Scandinavia

References

• “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.