Europa

From Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē), a character name in Greek mythology. Doublet of Europe.

• IPA^(key): /jʊˈɹoʊpə/

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The moon Europa

Europa

1. (Greek mythology) Several characters, most notably a Phoenician princess abducted to Crete by Zeus.
2. (astronomy) A moon of Jupiter.
3. (astronomy) 52 Europa, a main belt asteroid; not to be confused with the Jovian moon.

• Europa regina
• Europe
• European

From Dutch Europa.

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Europa

1. Europe

• (continents) kontinent; Afrika, Amerika (Noord-Amerika, Suid-Amerika), Antarktika, Asië, Europa, Oseanië ^{(Category: af:Continents)}

Europa f

1. Europe

• européu

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əwˈɾo.pə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ewˈɾo.pa]

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Europa f

1. Europe

• euro
• euro-
• Europa Central
• europeu

• (continents) continent; Àfrica,‎ Amèrica,‎ Amèrica del Nord/‎Nord-amèrica,‎ Amèrica del Sud/‎Sud-amèrica,‎ Antàrtida,‎ Àsia,‎ Europa,‎ Oceania ^{(Category: ca:Continents) [edit]}

Via Latin Eurōpa from Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē)

• IPA^(key): [eˈʁoːpʰa]

Europa

1. Europe

From Middle Dutch europa, from Latin Eurōpa, from Ancient Greek Εὐρώπᾱ (Eurṓpā), Doric form of Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē).

• IPA^(key): /øːˈroːpaː/, [øˑˈroːpaˑ], [ʏˑˈroːpaˑ]

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• Hyphenation: Eu‧ro‧pa
• Rhymes: -oːpaː

Picture dictionary
Europa Europa Duitsland Frankrijk Spanje Verenigd Koninkrijk Italië Rusland Griekenland Turkije Polen Zweden Noorwegen Finland Zwitserland Oostenrijk Tsjechië Slowakije Hongarije Slovenië Kroatië B. Servië Bulgarije Albanië Malta Cyprus Armenië Roemenië Oekraïne Wit-Rusland Litouwen Letland Estland Portugal Nederland Denemarken België L. Ierland Engeland Schotland IJsland Syrië Middellandse Zee Zwarte Zee Noordzee Atlantische Oceaan
B. = Bosnië en Herzegovina L. = Luxemburg

Europa n

1. The continent Europe

• Europeaan
• Europees

• Afrikaans: Europa
• Negerhollands: Juropa
• → Malay: Eropah
  • Indonesian: Eropa

Europa f

1. (Greek mythology) A Phoenician princess abducted to Crete by Zeus
2. A moon of Jupiter

Learned borrowing in 2021 from Latin Eurōpa, from Ancient Greek Εὐρώπᾱ (Eurṓpā), Doric form of Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē).

• IPA^(key): /e.u.ɾo.pa/
• Hyphenation: E‧u‧ro‧pa
• Rhymes: -ɾo.pa

Europa

1. The continent Europe

• Albagɔ
• Daŋɔ
• Diiki-dapoore-dutsi
• Dusgo
• Dusgo-peelga
• Dutsgo
• Fãreŋo
• Ɩŋɔ
• Malta
• Polgo
• Portugal
• Sɛkɔ
• Sɛpaŋɔ
• Suis-tẽŋa
• Tɩntɩnnɔ
• Tʋrkɔ
• Ukraigo

• IPA^(key): /ewˈɾɔpa/ [ewˈɾɔ.pɐ]

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• Rhymes: -ɔpa
• Hyphenation: Eu‧ro‧pa

Europa

1. Europe
2. (astronomy) Europa (large moon of Jupiter)
3. (astronomy) Europa (asteroid)
4. (Greek mythology) Europa (woman seduced by Zeus)

• (continents) continente; África, América (Norteamérica/América del Norte, Sudamérica/Suramérica/América del Sur), Antártida, Asia, Europa, Oceanía ^{(Category: es:Continents)}
• (moon of Jupiter): Calisto, Ganímedes, Ío

• europeo
• Unión Europea
• euro

• IPA^(key): /ɔʏ̯ˈʁoːpa/

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Europa n (proper noun, strong, genitive Europa or Europas or Europens)

1. The continent Europe

   Deutschland liegt im Herzen Europas.

   Germany lies in the heart of Europe.

2. The European legal space; the territory characterized by the European Union

(continents) Erdteil, Kontinent; Afrika, Amerika (Nordamerika, Südamerika), Antarktika, Asien, Europa, Ozeanien ^{(Category: de:Continents)}

• Europäer
• europäisch
• europäisieren
• Europapolitik

Europa f (genitive Europas or Europa)

1. (Greek mythology) A Phoenician princess abducted to Crete by Zeus
2. A moon of Jupiter

• “Europa” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Borrowed from English Europe, French Europe, German Europa, Italian Europa, Russian Евро́па (Jevrópa), Spanish Europa, ultimately from Latin Eurōpa, from Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē).

• IPA^(key): /ew.ˈro.pa/, /ɛw.ˈɾɔ.pa/

Europa

1. Europe

• Europana (“European”)
• Europano (“European”)

• (continents) kontinento; Afrika, Amerika (Nord-Amerika, Sud-Amerika), Antarktika, Azia, Australia, Europa ^{(Category: io:Continents)}

Europa

1. Europe
2. Europa

From Latin Eurōpa.

• IPA^(key): /ewˈrɔ.pa/
• Rhymes: -ɔpa
• Hyphenation: Eu‧rò‧pa

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Europa f

1. (continent) Europe

   Hypernym: Eurasia

2. (nautical, sailing, sports) Europe (an olympic sailing class)
3. (astronomy, natural satellite) Europa
4. (astronomy, asteroid) 52 Europa
5. (mythology, Greek mythology) Europa (consort of Zeus, daughter of Agenor)
6. (mythology, Greek mythology) Europa (daughter of Oceanus and Tethys)

• (continents) continente; Africa, America (America meridionale, America settentrionale), Antartide, Asia, Europa, Oceania ^{(Category: it:Continents)}

• Eurōpē

Borrowed from Doric Greek Εὐρώπα (Eurṓpa); cognate with Attic Greek Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eu̯ˈroː.pa/, [ɛu̯ˈroːpä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eu̯ˈro.pa/, [eu̯ˈrɔːpä]

Eurōpa f sg (genitive Eurōpae); first declension

1. (Greek mythology) Europa (daughter of Phoenician king Agenor who was abducted by Jupiter and carried to Crete)
2. Europe
   • 43, Pomponius Mela, De situ orbis, book 1, chapter 3:

     Brevis Europae descriptio.—Europa terminos habet, ab oriente Tanain et Maeotida et Pontum; a meridie reliqua nostri maris; ab occidente Atlanticum; a septentrione Britannicum oceanum. (genitive and nomitive cases)

     A brief description of Europe.—Europe's borders, on the east are Tanais, Maeotida, and Pontus; on the south, the rest of our sea; on the west, the side of the Atlantic; north of the British Ocean.

   • ca. 415, Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, book 6, section 661:

     Quartus vero et magnus Europae sinus ab Hellesponto incipiens Maeotis ostio terminatur. Nam arctum mare inter Europam et Asiam in angustias septem stadiorum interfluens coarctatur; quas angustias Hellespontum dicunt, ubi Xerxes Persidis rex aggregatis navibus ponteque constructo exercitum duxit. (genitive and accusative cases)

     The fourth and great bay of Europe, beginning from the Hellespont, terminates at the mouth of the Maeotis. For the narrow sea flowing between Europe and Asia is confined to a narrow strip of seven furlongs; which they call the narrows of the Hellespont, where Xerxes, king of the Persians, assembled his ships and led his army under a bridge.

3. (New Latin, astronomy) Europa (moon of Jupiter)
4. (New Latin, astronomy) 52 Europa (main belt asteroid)

First-declension noun, singular only.

• → Bulgarian: Европа (Evropa)
• Catalan: Europa
• → Middle English: Europe
  • English: Europe, Europa (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: Europe
• → Dutch: Europa
  • → Indonesian: Eropa
• French: Europe
• → German: Europa
• Italian: Europa
  • → Sicilian: Europa
  • → Turkish: Avrupa
• → Mandarin: 歐羅巴／欧罗巴 (Ōuluóbā)
• Portuguese: Europa
  • → Japanese: ヨーロッパ (Yōroppa)
• → Romanian: Europa
• Sicilian: Aurupa
• Spanish: Europa
• → Russian: Европа (Jevropa)

• “Europa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Europa”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “Europa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Europa”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “Europa”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Europà f stress pattern 2

1. Europe (continent)

• europiẽtis m, europiẽtė f

From Latin Europa, from Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē).

Europa

1. Europe (continent)

   Hun kan alle hovedstedene i Europa.

   She can name all the capitals in Europe.

• europeisk
• europeer

• (continents) kontinent; Afrika, Amerika, Antarktis, Asia, Europa, Nord-Amerika, Oseania, Sør-Amerika ^{(Category: no:Continents)}

• “Europa” in The Ordnett Dictionary
• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “Europe”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

From Latin Europa, from Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē).

Europa

1. Europe (continent)

   Ho kan alle hovudstadene i Europa.

   She can name all the capitals in Europe.

• europeisk
• europear

Learned borrowing from Latin Eurōpa, from Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē).

• IPA^(key): /ɛwˈrɔ.pa/

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• Rhymes: -ɔpa
• Syllabification: Eu‧ro‧pa

Europa f

1. Europe

   Europa Północna ― Northern Europe

2. (Greek mythology) Europa (princess abducted to Crete by Zeus)
3. Europa (moon of Jupiter)

• Europa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Europa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Europa f

1. Europe (a continent)
2. (Greek mythology) Europa (Phoenician princess)
3. (astronomy) Europa (moon of Jupiter)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Europa.

• → Japanese: ヨーロッパ (Yōroppa)
• → Burmese: ဥရောပ (u.rau:pa.)

• Еуропа (Europa) — Moldovan Cyrillic spelling

• IPA^(key): /e.uˈro.pa/

Europa f

1. Europe (a continent)
2. Europa (goddess)
3. Europa (moon of Jupiter)

• Europa in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

From Latin Eurōpa, from Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē).

L'Europa f

1. Europe
2. (astronomy) Europa

• Evrópa (Bosnia, Serbia)

• IPA^(key): /eurǒːpa/
• Hyphenation: E‧u‧ro‧pa

Európa f (Cyrillic spelling Еуро́па)

1. (Croatia) Europe
2. (Croatia) Europa

• Aurupa, Arupa (archaic form)
• Eurupa, Iurupa (modern sicilianization)

Borrowed from Latin Eurōpa. Doublet of Sicilian Aurupa.

• IPA^(key): /ɛwˈɾɔ.pa/ (Standard)
• IPA^(key): /iwˈɾu.pa/ (sicilianized)
• Hyphenation: Eu‧rò‧pa

Europa f

1. (continent) Europe (the portion of Eurasia west of the Urals, traditionally considered a continent in its own right, located north of Africa, west of Asia and east of the Atlantic Ocean)

   Hypernym: Euràsia

2. (astronomy, natural satellite) Europa
3. (astronomy, asteroid) 52 Europa
4. (mythology, Greek mythology) Europa (consort of Zeus, daughter of Agenor)
5. (mythology, Greek mythology) Europa (daughter of Oceanus and Tethys)

• Uniuni Eurupea
• euru
• euro

• IPA^(key): /euˈɾopa/ [eu̯ˈɾo.pa]
• Rhymes: -opa
• Syllabification: Eu‧ro‧pa

Europa f

1. Europe (the portion of Eurasia west of the Urals, traditionally considered a continent in its own right, located north of Africa, west of Asia and east of the Atlantic Ocean)
2. (astronomy) Europa (large moon of Jupiter)
3. (astronomy) Europa (asteroid)
4. (Greek mythology) Europa (woman seduced by Zeus)

• (continents) continente; África, América (Norteamérica/América del Norte, Sudamérica/Suramérica/América del Sur), Antártida, Asia, Europa, Oceanía ^{(Category: es:Continents)}

• “Europa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Εὐρώπα (Eurṓpa).

• IPA^(key): /ɛˈruːpa/

Europa n (genitive Europas)

1. Europe, the westernmost part of the Eurasian continent, north of Africa and west of Asia

• europeisk
• europeiska
• euro
• europé

Europa c (genitive Europas)

1. Europa (goddess)
2. Europa, a moon of Jupiter

• Yuropa

Borrowed from Spanish Europa.

• IPA^(key): /juˈɾopa/, [jʊˈɾo.pɐ]

• IPA^(key): /ʔewˈɾopa/, [ʔɛʊ̯ˈɾo.pɐ] (obsolete)
• Hyphenation: Eu‧ro‧pa

Europa (Baybayin spelling ᜌᜓᜇᜓᜉ)

1. Europe (a continent)

• “Europa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Europa

1. (Greek mythology) Europa
2. (astronomy) Europa