antártico
Galician
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Derived from Latin antarcticus, borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀνταρκτικός (antarktikós, “opposite the Arctic”).
Adjective
[edit]antártico (feminine antártica, masculine plural antárticos, feminine plural antárticas)
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[edit]- antárctico (pre-1990 spelling)
- antarctico (pre-standardization spelling)
Etymology
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Learned borrowing from Latin antarcticus, borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀνταρκτικός (antarktikós, “opposite the Arctic”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: an‧tár‧ti‧co
Adjective
[edit]antártico (feminine antártica, masculine plural antárticos, feminine plural antárticas)
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “antártico”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “antártico”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
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Learned borrowing from Latin antarcticus, borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀνταρκτικός (antarktikós, “opposite the Arctic”), from ἀντί (antí, “opposed to; against”) + ἀρκτικός (arktikós, “Arctic”).
Pronunciation
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[edit]antártico (feminine antártica, masculine plural antárticos, feminine plural antárticas)
- (astronomy, geography) Antarctic
- Antonym: ártico
- 2013 January 15, “2012 fue el noveno año más cálido desde 1880, según científicos de la NASA”, in CNN en Español[1], archived from the original on 22 November 2025:
- El GISS detalló que sus resultados son producto de una compilación de datos, de más de 1,000 estaciones meteorológicas de todo el mundo, de las observaciones satelitales de temperatura superficial del mar, y de las mediciones de estaciones antárticas de investigación.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- meridional (of or in the south, southern)
- Synonyms: austral, meridional, sureño
Derived terms
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[edit]- “antártico”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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