diaspora
English
Alternative forms
- Diaspora (in certain senses)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek διασπορά (diasporá, “dispersion”), from διασπείρω (diaspeírō, “I scatter”), from διά (diá, “across”) + σπείρω (speírō, “I sow”).
Noun
diaspora (plural diasporas)
- The dispersion of the Jews among the Gentiles after the Captivity.
- Any similar dispersion.
- The African diaspora caused a melding of cultures, both African cultures and Western ones, in many places.
- A group so dispersed, especially Jews outside of the land of Israel.
- The regions where such a dispersed group (especially the Jews) resides, taken collectively.
- Jews in the diaspora often have a different perspective of anti-Semitism from Israeli Jews.
- Any dispersion of an originally homogeneous entity, such as a language or culture.
- 1988, Joseph Foley, New Englishes: the case of Singapore, page 1:
- Small wonder that there should have been in recent years fresh talk of the diaspora of English into several mutually incomprehensible languages
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Derived terms
Translations
dispersion of a group of people
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Finnish
(index d)
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: dias‧po‧ra
Declension
| Inflection of diaspora (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | diaspora | diasporat | |
| genitive | diasporan | diasporien | |
| partitive | diasporaa | diasporia | |
| illative | diasporaan | diasporiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | diaspora | diasporat | |
| accusative | nom. | diaspora | diasporat |
| gen. | diasporan | ||
| genitive | diasporan | diasporien diasporainrare | |
| partitive | diasporaa | diasporia | |
| inessive | diasporassa | diasporissa | |
| elative | diasporasta | diasporista | |
| illative | diasporaan | diasporiin | |
| adessive | diasporalla | diasporilla | |
| ablative | diasporalta | diasporilta | |
| allative | diasporalle | diasporille | |
| essive | diasporana | diasporina | |
| translative | diasporaksi | diasporiksi | |
| instructive | — | diasporin | |
| abessive | diasporatta | diasporitta | |
| comitative | — | diasporineen | |
Derived terms
French
Further reading
- “diaspora” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
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