Scandinavia

English

Scandinavia in a narrow sense (red) and the Nordic countries (red, orange, and yellow)

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /skændɪˈneɪvi.ə/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -eɪviə

Proper noun

Scandinavia

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

     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^[2], 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.

Hypernyms

• (group of countries): Nordic countries

Derived terms

• Scandinavian
• Scandinavism

Translations

Denmark, Norway, and Sweden

• Albanian: Skandinavia (sq) f
• Amharic: ስካንዲናቪያ (səkandinaviya)
• Arabic: إِسْكَنْدِينَافِيَا f (ʔiskandīnāfiyā), إِسْكَنْدِنَافْيَا f (ʔiskandināfyā), إسكنديناوة f
• Armenian: Սկանդինավիա (Skandinavia)
• Asturian: Escandinavia f
• Azerbaijani: Skandinaviya
• Belarusian: Скандына́вія f (Skandynávija)
• Bengali: স্ক্যান্ডিনেভিয়া (skênḍinebhiẏa)
• Breton: Skandinavia, Lec’hlenn
• Bulgarian: Скандина́вия f (Skandinávija)
• Burmese: စကင်ဒီနေးဗီးယား (ca.kangdine:bi:ya:)
• Catalan: Escandinàvia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 斯堪的納維亞／斯堪的纳维亚 (zh) (Sīkāndìnàwéiyà)

• Cornish: Skandinavi
• Czech: Skandinávie (cs) f
• Danish: Skandinavien n
• Dutch: Scandinavië (nl) n
• Esperanto: Skandinavio (eo)
• Estonian: Skandinaavia (et)
• Faroese: Skandinavia f
• Finnish: Skandinavia (fi)
• French: Scandinavie (fr) f
• Galician: Escandinavia (gl) f
• Georgian: სკანდინავია (sḳandinavia)
• German: Skandinavien (de) n
• Greek: Σκανδιναβία (el) f (Skandinavía)
• Hawaiian: Sekanedinawia
• Hebrew: סְקַנְדִּינַבְיָה (skandináviya)
• Hiligaynon: Eskandinabya
• Hindi: स्कैंडेनेविया m (skaiṇḍeneviyā)
• Hungarian: Skandinávia (hu)
• Icelandic: Skandinavía (is) f
• Ido: Skandinavia (io)
• Irish: Críoch Lochlann f
• Italian: Scandinavia (it) f
• Japanese: スカンディナヴィア (Sukandinavia), スカンジナビア (Sukanjinabia), スカンディナビア (Sukandinabia)
• Kazakh: Скандинавия (Skandinaviä)
• Khmer: ស្កង់ឌីណាវី (skɑngdiinaavii)
• Korean: 스칸디나비아 (ko) (Seukandinabia)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Skandînavya

• Kyrgyz: Скандинавия (Skandinaviya)
• Latin: Scandināvia f
• Latvian: Skandināvija f
• Lithuanian: Skandinavija f
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: Scandinavië

  German Low German: Skandinavien n

• Macedonian: Скандинавија f (Skandinavija)
• Malay: Skandinavia
• Manx: Loghlin f
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Скандинав (Skandinav)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Skandinavia

  Nynorsk: Skandinavia

• Occitan: Escandinàvia (oc) f
• Persian: اسکاندیناوی (fa) (eskândinâvi)
• Polish: Skandynawia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Escandinávia (pt) f
• Romanian: Scandinavia f
• Russian: Скандина́вия (ru) f (Skandinávija)
• Scots: Scandinavie
• Scottish Gaelic: Lochlann m or f, Scànnanàibhia
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Скандѝна̄вија f

  Roman: Skandìnāvija (sh) f

• Slovak: Škandinávia f
• Slovene: Skandinavija (sl) f
• Spanish: Escandinavia (es) f
• Swedish: Skandinavien (sv) n, Norden (sv) c
• Tajik: Скандинавия (Skandinaviya)
• Tatar: Скандинавия (Skandinawiyä)
• Thai: สแกนดิเนเวีย (sà-gɛɛn-dì-nee-wiia)
• Turkish: İskandinavya (tr)
• Turkmen: Skandinawiýa
• Ukrainian: Скандина́вія f (Skandynávija)
• Urdu: اسکینڈینیویا m (iskainḍeneviyā)
• Uyghur: سكاندىناۋىيە (skandinawiye)
• Uzbek: Skandinaviya (uz)
• Vietnamese: Xcan-đi-na-vi
• Welsh: Llychlyn f, Sgandinafia f
• Yiddish: סקאַנדינאַוויע n (skandinavye)

Scandinavian Peninsula — see Scandinavian Peninsula

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• Maltese: ^{(please verify)} Skandinavja f, ^{(please verify)} l-Iskandinavja f

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Scandinavia f

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

Derived terms

• scandinavo

Latin

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Scandināvia f sg (genitive Scandināviae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Scandināvia
Genitive	Scandināviae
Dative	Scandināviae
Accusative	Scandināviam
Ablative	Scandināviā
Vocative	Scandināvia
Locative	Scandināviae

Synonyms

• Scandia

Derived terms

• scandināvicus

Descendants

• English: Scandinavia

References

• “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.