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Australia

Australia

English

Satellite image of Australia (English def. 1)

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 f

  1. definite nominative of Australi

Asturian

Proper noun

Australia f

  1. Australia

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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

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑu̯strɑːliɑ/ (usually)
  • IPA(key): /ˈɑu̯strɑliɑ/ (spelling pronunciation)
  • Hyphenation: Aust‧ra‧li‧a

Proper noun

Australia

  1. Australia

Declension

Inflection of Australia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative Australia —
genitive Australian —
partitive Australiaa —
illative Australiaan —
singular plural
nominative Australia —
accusative nom. Australia —
gen. Australian
genitive Australian —
partitive Australiaa —
inessive Australiassa —
elative Australiasta —
illative Australiaan —
adessive Australialla —
ablative Australialta —
allative Australialle —
essive Australiana —
translative Australiaksi —
instructive — —
abessive Australiatta —
comitative — —

In Australia = Australiassa.

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Galician

Proper noun

Australia f

  1. Australia

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Ido

Proper noun

Australia

  1. Australia

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Indonesian

Proper noun

Australia

  1. Australia (country)

Interlingua

Proper noun

Australia

  1. Australia (country)

Italian

Proper noun

Australia f

  1. Australia

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Latin

Proper noun

Australia f ‎(genitive Australiae); first declension

  1. (New Latin) Australia

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Inflection

First declension, with locative.

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

Malay

Etymology

From English Australia, from Latin terra austrālis incōgnita ‎(“unknown southern land”), from auster ‎(“the south wind”).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Australia

  1. Australia (country)

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /æʉstɾɑːljɑ/

Proper noun

Australia

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

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Australia

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

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Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /awˈstra.lʲa/

Proper noun

Australia f

  1. Australia

Declension

declension of Australia
singular
nominative Australia
genitive Australii
dative Australii
accusative Australię
instrumental Australią
locative Australii
vocative Australio

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Romanian

Proper noun

Australia f

  1. Australia (a country of Oceania)
  2. Australia (a continent)

Declension

declension of Australia (singular only)
singular
f gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (o) Australie Australia
genitive/dative (unei) Australii Australiei
vocative Australie, Australio

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Spanish

Proper noun

Australia f

  1. Australia

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Swahili

Proper noun

Australia

  1. Australia

Tagalog

Proper noun

Australia

  1. Australia (country)

australia

australia

Latin

Adjective

austrālia

  1. nominative neuter plural of austrālis
  2. accusative neuter plural of austrālis
  3. vocative neuter plural of austrālis

References

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.

Pronunciation

  • (Australia, Macquarie Dictionary) IPA(key): /ɒˈstɹeɪl.jə/, /əˈstɹeɪl.jə/
  • (Australia) IPA(key): /əˈstɹæɪ.ljə/, /əˈstɹæɪ.liː.ə/, /əˈstɹæɪ.jə/
  • (Tasmanian) IPA(key): /əˈstɹɛ.liː.ə/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɒˈstɹeɪ.liː.ə/, /ɒˈstɹeɪ.li.jə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ɔˈstɹeɪ.li.ə/, /ɔˈstɹeɪl.jə/
  • (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /ɑˈstɹeɪ.li.ə/, /ɑˈstɹeɪl.jə/
  • Rhymes: -eɪliə

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