eureka

See also: Eureka and eurêka

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek εὕρηκα (heúrēka, “I have found”), perfect active indicative first singular of εὑρίσκω (heurískō, “to find”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /juˈɹikə/
• Rhymes: -iːkə

Interjection

eureka

1. 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

• eureka effect
• eureka moment

Translations

exclamation indicating sudden discovery

• Albanian: eureka, e gjeta
• Bulgarian: еврика (evrika)
• Catalan: eureka (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 尤里卡 (yóulǐkǎ), 我發現了！／我发现了！, 我发现了！ (Wǒ fāxiàn le!), 我找到了！ (Wǒ zhǎodào le!)

• Czech: heuréka
• Danish: heureka (da)
• Finnish: heureka (fi)
• French: eurêka (fr)
• German: Heureka
• Greek: εύρηκα (el) (évrika)
• Hungarian: heuréka
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• Icelandic: það tókst, þar kom það, ég hef fundið það
• Italian: eureka
• Japanese: キテレツ (kiteretsu); ユーレカ (yūreka)
• Macedonian: еуре́ка (euréka), е́врека (évreka)
• Persian: یافتم (yāftam)
• Portuguese: heureca (pt), eureca (pt)
• Romanian: évrica
• Russian: э́врика (ru) (évrika)
• Spanish: eureka
• Swedish: heureka (sv), eureka (sv)
• Turkish: efreka

Noun

eureka (uncountable)

1. Synonym of constantan (“copper-nickel alloy”)

See also

• aha moment
• epiphany

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Dutch

Etymology

From Ancient Greek εὕρηκα (heúrēka, “I have found”), perfect active indicative 1st singular of εὑρίσκω (heurískō, “I find”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /øːˈreːkaː/

• Audio:

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Interjection

eureka

1. eureka

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛu̯.re.ka/
• Hyphenation: èu‧re‧ka

Interjection

eureka

1. eureka

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /euˈɾeka/ [eu̯ˈɾe.ka]

Interjection

1. eureka