Scandinavia

Borrowed from Latin Scandināvia, from Proto-Germanic *Skadinawjō (“Scadia island”) (compare Old English Sċedeniġ, Old Norse Skáney > Swedish Skåne (“southern tip of Sweden, Scania”)), with the suffix *awjō (“island”) (compare Old English īġ, īeġ (“island”), whence dialectal modern English ey; Old Norse ey (“island”)). Doublet of Scania.

• (US) IPA^(key): /skændɪˈneɪvi.ə/

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• Rhymes: -eɪviə

Scandinavia

1. Denmark, Norway, and Sweden collectively and sometimes Finland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands.
   • 1987, Jonathan Wylie, The Faroe Islands: Interpretations of History‎:

     The Faroes are an obscure corner of Scandinavia and, apart from Lapland, Scandinavia is perhaps the most obscure corner of the world, ethnographically speaking.

   • 2002, Kenneth R. Evans, Lisa K. Scheer, editors, 2002 AMA Winter Educators’ Conference: Marketing Theory and Applications‎, volume 13, page 423:

     Internet banking has become popular in Finland and other parts of Scandinavia, for a variety of reasons.

   • 2023, Matt Thornton, The Gift of Violence: Practical Knowledge for Surviving and Thriving in a Dangerous World, →ISBN, page 103:

     And within Scandinavia, Iceland faces an epidemic of sexual violence, with twice as many reported rapes per capita as other Nordic countries.

2. (geographic) The Scandinavian Peninsula.

• (group of countries): Nordic countries

• Scandinavian
• Scandinavism

Borrowed from Latin Scandināvia, from Proto-Germanic *Skadinawjō (“Scadia island”).

• IPA^(key): /skan.diˈna.vja/
• Rhymes: -avja
• Hyphenation: Scan‧di‧nà‧via

Scandinavia f

1. Scandinavia, specifically:
2. (politics, cultural, linguistic, etc.) Denmark, Norway, and Sweden collectively
   1. (geographic) the Scandinavian Peninsula

• scandinavo

• Scadināvia
• Scatināvia
• Scandināuia, Scatināuia, Scadināuia (orthographic variants)

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /skan.diˈnaː.u̯i.a/, [s̠kän̪d̪ɪˈnäːu̯iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /skan.diˈna.vi.a/, [skän̪d̪iˈnäːviä]

Scandināvia f sg (genitive Scandināviae); first declension

1. Scandinavia
2. a large and fertile island in Northern Europe, perhaps Zealand or Scania

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Scandia

• scandināvicus

• English: Scandinavia

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