English

Scandinavia (red) and the Nordic countries (red, orange, and yellow)

Proper noun

Scandinavia

1. (politics, cultural, linguistic, etc.) Denmark, Norway, and Sweden collectively.
2. (geographic) The Scandinavian Peninsula

Hypernyms

• (group of countries): Nordic countries

Translations

Derived terms

• Scandinavian

Latin

Alternative forms

• Scadinavia
• Scatinavia
• Scandinauia, Scatinauia, Scadinauia (orthographic variants)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /skan.diˈnaː.wi.a/

Proper noun

Scandināvia f ‎(genitive Scandināviae); first declension

1. Scandinavia
2. Zealand

Inflection

First declension, with locative.

Synonyms

• Scandia

Derived terms

• scandināvicus

Descendants

• English: Scandinavia

References

• Scandinavia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Scandinavia”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.