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Antarctica
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English
Etymology
From Neo-Latin Antarctica, from prefix anti-, against or opposed, + arc-, circle, + adjective suffix -icus
Proper noun
Antarctica
- The continent located at the far south of the southern hemisphere, and which contains the south pole. It is south of Africa and Oceania, and is the only continent with no countries in it.
Translations
- Bosnian: Antarktika f
- Bulgarian: Антарктида
- Chinese: 南极洲 (nán jí zhōu)
- Dutch: Antarctica n
- Breton: Antarktika
- Esperanto: Antarktiko
- Finnish: Etelämanner , Antarktis, Etelänapamanner
- French: Antarctique
- German: Antarktis f
- Hungarian: Antarktisz
- Interlingua: Antarctica
- Italian: Antartide
- Japanese: 南極 (なんきょく, Nankyoku), 南極大陸 (なんきょくたいりく, Nankyoku tairiku)
- Latvian: Antarktika f
- Polish: Antarktyda
- Portuguese: Antártica
- Romanian: Antarctica
- Russian: Антарктида f, Антарктика f
- Turkish: Antarktika
Related Terms
Latin
Proper Noun
Antarctica f, genitive singular Antarcticae
- Antarctica (see English definition)
Related Terms
- arcticus
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