nostalgia
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- nostalgy (archaic)
Etymology[edit]
From New Latin nostalgia, coined from Ancient Greek νόστος (nóstos, “returning home”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”), translating German Heimweh.[1] Ancient Greek *νοσταλγία (*nostalgía) is unattested. Transferred sense probably influenced by French nostalgie, especially in literature.[2]
Compare Italian nostalgia, Spanish nostalgia, Portuguese nostalgia and French nostalgie.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /nɒˈstæld͡ʒə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /nɑˈstæld͡ʒə/, /nəˈstæld͡ʒə/, /nɔˈstæld͡ʒə/; /nɑˈstɑld͡ʒə/, /nəˈstɑld͡ʒə/, /nɔˈstɑld͡ʒə/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /nəˈstæɫd͡ʒə/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun[edit]
nostalgia (countable and uncountable, plural nostalgias)
- (now uncommon) A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness. [from 18th c.]
- 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter L, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
- I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not.
- (transferred sense) A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past. [from 20th c.]
- 2013 August 16, Oliver Burkeman, “This is the cutest article”, in The Guardian Weekly[1], volume 189, number 10, page 20:
- I can't have been the only person, last week, to feel a rush of nostalgia upon learning that Thames Water had removed a bus-sized, 15-tonne lump of food fat ("mixed with wet wipes") from the sewers under London. The fatberg was an August news story redolent of the old-fashioned silly season.
- 2022 November 15, Dan Hancox, “‘Who remembers proper binmen?’ The nostalgia memes that help explain Britain today”, in The Guardian[2]:
- Though there is nothing generationally unique in the desire to bask in the banalities of your past, these nostalgia communities have flourished on Facebook as its user base has grown ever older in the past decade.
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Johannes Hofer (1688) Dissertatio medica de nostalgia, oder Heimwehe (in Latin), Basel: Johann Jakob Harder, […] ” : “Neque verò denomine deliberanti convenientuis occurrit, remque explicandam præciſius deſignans, quam Noſtalgias vocabulum, origine græcum, & quidem duabus ex vocibus compoſitum, quorum alterum Νόστος Reditum in Patriam, alterum Ἄλγος dolorem aut triſtitiam ſignificat:
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “nostalgia”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
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Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From New Latin nostalgia, coined from Ancient Greek νόστος (nóstos, “returning home”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
nostalgia
Declension[edit]
Inflection of nostalgia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | nostalgia | nostalgiat | ||
genitive | nostalgian | nostalgioiden nostalgioitten | ||
partitive | nostalgiaa | nostalgioita | ||
illative | nostalgiaan | nostalgioihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | nostalgia | nostalgiat | ||
accusative | nom. | nostalgia | nostalgiat | |
gen. | nostalgian | |||
genitive | nostalgian | nostalgioiden nostalgioitten nostalgiainrare | ||
partitive | nostalgiaa | nostalgioita | ||
inessive | nostalgiassa | nostalgioissa | ||
elative | nostalgiasta | nostalgioista | ||
illative | nostalgiaan | nostalgioihin | ||
adessive | nostalgialla | nostalgioilla | ||
ablative | nostalgialta | nostalgioilta | ||
allative | nostalgialle | nostalgioille | ||
essive | nostalgiana | nostalgioina | ||
translative | nostalgiaksi | nostalgioiksi | ||
instructive | — | nostalgioin | ||
abessive | nostalgiatta | nostalgioitta | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Further reading[edit]
- "nostalgia" in Kielitoimiston sanakirja (Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish).
Indonesian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
nostalgia (first-person possessive nostalgiaku, second-person possessive nostalgiamu, third-person possessive nostalgianya)
Further reading[edit]
- “nostalgia” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from New Latin nostalgia, coined from Ancient Greek νόστος (nóstos, “returning home”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
nostalgia f (plural nostalgie)
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Malay[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
nostalgia (Jawi spelling نوستلݢيا, plural nostalgia-nostalgia, informal 1st possessive nostalgiaku, 2nd possessive nostalgiamu, 3rd possessive nostalgianya)
Further reading[edit]
- “nostalgia” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Polish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French nostalgie, from New Latin nostalgia, from Ancient Greek νόστος (nóstos) + ἄλγος (álgos).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
nostalgia f
- nostalgia (yearning for the past)
Declension[edit]
singular | plural | |
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nominative | nostalgia | nostalgie |
genitive | nostalgii | nostalgii/nostalgij (archaic) |
dative | nostalgii | nostalgiom |
accusative | nostalgię | nostalgie |
instrumental | nostalgią | nostalgiami |
locative | nostalgii | nostalgiach |
vocative | nostalgio | nostalgie |
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Further reading[edit]
- nostalgia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- nostalgia in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From New Latin nostalgia, coined from Ancient Greek νόστος (nóstos, “returning home”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”).
Cognate with Galician nostalxia.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: nos‧tal‧gi‧a
Noun[edit]
nostalgia f (plural nostalgias)
- nostalgia (yearning for the past)
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from New Latin nostalgia, coined from Ancient Greek νόστος (nóstos, “returning home”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
nostalgia f (plural nostalgias)
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “nostalgia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- Rhymes:Finnish/iɑ
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- Rhymes:Polish/alɡja
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- pl:Nostalgia
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- pt:Nostalgia
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- Rhymes:Spanish/alxja
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- es:Nostalgia