eureka
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek εὕρηκα (heúrēka, “I have found”), perfect active indicative first singular of εὑρίσκω (heurískō, “to find”).
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -iːkə
Interjection
eureka
- An exclamation indicating sudden discovery.
- 1821: Eureka! I have found it! What I mean / To say is, not that love is idleness, / But that in love such idleness has been / An accessory, as I have cause to guess. — Byron, Don Juan, 1821
- 1970: A page is turned - eureka, a snatch of tune / is playing itself, the piss-proud syllables / are unveiling a difficult prosody — Peter Porter, The Sanitized Sonnets, in The Last of England, 1970
Derived terms
Translations
exclamation indicating sudden discovery
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Noun
eureka (uncountable)
- Synonym of constantan (“copper-nickel alloy”)
See also
Dutch
Etymology
From Ancient Greek εὕρηκα (heúrēka, “I have found”), perfect active indicative 1st singular of εὑρίσκω (heurískō, “I find”).
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eureka
Italian
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eureka
Spanish
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