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Scandinavia

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Scandinavia in a narrow sense (red) and the Nordic countries (red, orange, and yellow)

Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin Scandināvia, from Proto-Germanic *Skadinawjō (“Scadia island”) (compare Old English Sċedeniġ, Old Norse Skáney > Swedish Skåne (“southern tip of Sweden, Scania”)), with the suffix *awjō (“island”) (compare Old English īġ, īeġ (“island”), whence dialectal modern English ey; Old Norse ey (“island”)). Doublet of Scania.

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Scandinavia

  1. Denmark, Norway, and Sweden collectively and sometimes Finland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands.
    • 1987, Jonathan Wylie, The Faroe Islands: Interpretations of History‎[1]:
      The Faroes are an obscure corner of Scandinavia and, apart from Lapland, Scandinavia is perhaps the most obscure corner of the world, ethnographically speaking.
    • 2002, Kenneth R. Evans, Lisa K. Scheer, editors, 2002 AMA Winter Educators’ Conference: Marketing Theory and Applications‎[2], volume 13, page 423:
      Internet banking has become popular in Finland and other parts of Scandinavia, for a variety of reasons.
    • 2023, Matt Thornton, The Gift of Violence: Practical Knowledge for Surviving and Thriving in a Dangerous World, →ISBN, page 103:
      And within Scandinavia, Iceland faces an epidemic of sexual violence, with twice as many reported rapes per capita as other Nordic countries.
  2. (geographic) The Scandinavian Peninsula.

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin Scandināvia, from Proto-Germanic *Skadinawjō (“Scadia island”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /skan.diˈna.vja/
  • Rhymes: -avja
  • Hyphenation: Scan‧di‧nà‧via

Proper noun

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Scandinavia f

  1. Scandinavia, specifically:
  2. (politics, cultural, linguistic, etc.) Denmark, Norway, and Sweden collectively
    1. (geographic) the Scandinavian Peninsula

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *Skadinawjō (“Scadia island”), from *awjō (“island”).

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Proper noun

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Scandināvia f sg (genitive Scandināviae); first declension

  1. Scandinavia
  2. a large and fertile island in Northern Europe, perhaps Zealand or Scania

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First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

singular
nominative Scandināvia
genitive Scandināviae
dative Scandināviae
accusative Scandināviam
ablative Scandināviā
vocative Scandināvia
locative Scandināviae

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Descendants

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  • English: Scandinavia

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