Polynesia

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πολύς (polús, many) + νῆσος (nêsos, island); according to Moon Handbooks Tahiti, "the term Polynesia was coined by Charles de Brosses in 1756 and applied to all the Pacific islands. The present restricted use was proposed by Dumont d'Urville during a famous lecture at the Geographical Society in Paris in 1831."

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /pɒləˈniːzi.ə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˌpɑːləˈniːʒə/
  • Rhymes: -iːʒə

Proper noun

Polynesia

  1. Part of Oceania including Easter Island, Hawaii, New Zealand, and most of the islands between them.

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Finnish

Proper noun

Polynesia

  1. Polynesia

Declension

Inflection of Polynesia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative Polynesia
genitive Polynesian
partitive Polynesiaa
illative Polynesiaan
singular plural
nominative Polynesia
accusative nom. Polynesia
gen. Polynesian
genitive Polynesian
partitive Polynesiaa
inessive Polynesiassa
elative Polynesiasta
illative Polynesiaan
adessive Polynesialla
ablative Polynesialta
allative Polynesialle
essive Polynesiana
translative Polynesiaksi
instructive
abessive Polynesiatta
comitative

Latin

Proper noun

Polynēsia f sg (genitive Polynēsiae); first declension

  1. (New Latin) Polynesia

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Polynēsia
Genitive Polynēsiae
Dative Polynēsiae
Accusative Polynēsiam
Ablative Polynēsiā
Vocative Polynēsia
Locative Polynēsiae

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Polynesia

  1. Polynesia

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Polynesia

  1. Polynesia

Derived terms

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