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Australia Definition

Australia

See also Austrália, australia, and australià

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English

Wikipedia has an article on: Australia Satellite image of Australia (English def. 1)

Etymology

First attested 16th century, from Latin terra austrālis incōgnita (“unknown southern land”), from auster (“the south wind”). Used also in 1693 (quotation below). Popularised by Matthew Flinders in 1814 (quotation below).

Distantly cognate to Austria – same Proto-Indo-European root, but via German where it retained the earlier sense of “east” rather than “south”.

See also Terra Australis.

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Proper noun

Australia

  1. A country in Oceania. Official name: Commonwealth of Australia.
    • 1693: translation of a French novel by Jacques Sadeur (believed to be a pen name of Gabriel de Foigny) titled Les Aventures de Jacques Sadeur dans la Découverte et le Voiage de la Terre Australe published 1692, translation published in London in 1693. Quoted in The Australian Language by Sidney J. Baker, second edition, 1966, chapter XIX, section 1, pages 388-9.
      This is all that I can have a certain knowledge of as to that side of Australia ...
    • 1814, Matthew Flinders, A Voyage to Terra Australis, volume 1 (at Project Gutenberg)
      Had I permitted myself any innovation upon the original term, it would have been to convert it into AUSTRALIA; as being more agreeable to the ear, and an assimilation to the names of the other great portions of the earth.
  2. (geology) The continent of Australia-New Guinea. New Guinea and the intervening islands are also on the Australian tectonic plate and are thus geologically considered part of the continent.

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Albanian

Proper noun

Australia

  1. Australia (country)

Basque

Proper noun

Australia

  1. Australia (country)

Declension

"Australia"
Inanimate proper noun
Indefinite
Absolutive Australia
Ergative Australiak
Dative Australiari
Genitive Australiaren
Comitative Australiarekin
Causative Australiarengatik
Benefactive Australiarentzat
Instrumental Australiaz
Innesive Australiatan
Locative Australiatako
Allative Australiatara
Terminative Australiataraino
Directive Australiatarantz
Destinative Australiatarako
Ablative Australiatatik
Partitive Australiarik
Prolative Australiatzat

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Finnish

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Australia

  1. Australia

Declension

Declension of Australia (type kulkija)
singular plural
nominative Australia –
genitive Australian –
partitive Australiaa –
accusative Australia Australian –
inessive Australiassa –
elative Australiasta –
illative Australiaan –
adessive Australialla –
ablative Australialta –
allative Australialle –
essive Australiana –
translative Australiaksi –
instructive – –
abessive Australiatta –
comitative – –
1) Rare.

In Australia = Australiassa.

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Galician

Galician Wikipedia has an article on: Australia

Wikipedia gl

Proper noun

Australia f.

  1. Australia

Indonesian

Proper noun

Australia

  1. Australia (country)

Interlingua

Proper noun

Australia

  1. Australia (country)

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on: Australia

Wikipedia it

Proper noun

Australia f.

  1. Australia

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Latin

Proper noun

Australia (genitive Australiae); f, first declension

  1. Australia

Inflection

nominative Australia
genitive Australiae
dative Australiae
accusative Australiam
ablative Australiā
vocative Australia
locative Australiae

Malay

Proper noun

Australia

  1. Australia (country)

Norwegian

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Australia

  1. Australia (country)
  2. Australia (continent)

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Polish

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Australia f.

  1. Australia

Declension

Singular only
Nominative Australia
Genitive Australii
Dative Australii
Accusative Australię
Instrumental Australią
Locative Australii
Vocative Australio

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Romanian

Romanian Wikipedia has an article on: Australia

Wikipedia ro

Proper noun

Australia f.

  1. Australia

Declension

gender f. uncountable
Nom/Acc Australia
Gen/Dat Australiei

Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on: Australia

Wikipedia es

Proper noun

Australia f.

  1. Australia

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Tagalog

Proper noun

Australia

  1. Australia (country)

 

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