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
Proper noun
Polynesia
- Part of Oceania including Easter Island, Hawaii, New Zealand, and most of the islands between them.
Related terms
Translations
part of Oceania
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Finnish
Proper noun
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 (genitive Polynēsiae); first declension
Inflection
First declension, with locative.
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| nominative | Polynēsia |
| genitive | Polynēsiae |
| dative | Polynēsiae |
| accusative | Polynēsiam |
| ablative | Polynēsiā |
| vocative | Polynēsia |
| locative | Polynēsiae |
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