Antarctic

See also: antarctic

English

Alternative forms

• antarctic

Etymology

From Middle English antartik, antartyk, from Old French antartique, from Latin antarcticus, from Ancient Greek ἀνταρκτικός (antarktikós), from ἀντί (antí, “opposite”) + ἀρκτικός (arktikós, “Arctic”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”). By surface analysis, anti- +‎ Arctic.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ænˈtɑː(k)tɪk/ (see Usage notes)
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ænˈtɑɹ(k)tɪk/ (see Usage notes)

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tɪk, -ɑː(ɹ)ktɪk

Adjective

Antarctic (comparative more Antarctic, superlative most Antarctic)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Antarctica and the south polar regions.
   • 1972, George William Turner, The English Language in Australia and New Zealand, Longman, →ISBN, page 67:

     We are likely to consider Antarctic English as an occupational variety of general English rather than a new regional variety, mainly because men go to work in the Antarctic for a period, intending to return. They are not settlers.

   • 2014 May 12, Suzanne Goldenberg, “Western Antarctic ice sheet collapse has already begun, scientists warn”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Scientists have known for years that the Thwaites glacier is the soft underbelly of the Antarctic ice sheet, and first found that it was unstable decades ago.

2. (figuratively) Opposite, contradictory.
3. (obsolete) Southern.

Usage notes

See Arctic § Usage notes.

Derived terms

• Antarctic 10
• Antarctic Circle
• Antarctic English
• Antarctic Ocean
• Antarctic petrel
• Antarctic wolf
• British Antarctic Territory

 

Translations

pertaining to Antarctica

• Asturian: antárticu (ast)
• Belarusian: антаркты́чны (antarktýčny)
• Catalan: antàrtic (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 南極 / 南极 (zh) (Nánjí)

• Czech: antarktický (cs)
• Danish: antarktisk
• Dutch: Antarctisch (nl), antarctisch (nl)
• Esperanto: antarkta (eo)
• Finnish: antarktinen (fi), etelänapa- (fi)
• French: antarctique (fr)
• Galician: antártico (gl)
• Georgian: ანტარქტიკული (anṭarkṭiḳuli), ანტარქტიკის (anṭarkṭiḳis)
• German: antarktisch (de)
• Greek: ανταρκτικός (el) (antarktikós)
• Irish: Antartach
• Italian: antartico (it)
• Japanese: 南極 (ja) (Nankyoku)
• Korean: 남극 (ko) (Namgeuk)
• Macedonian: антарктички (antarktički)
• Maltese: Antartiku
• Manx: antarctagh
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: antarktisk

  Nynorsk: antarktisk (nn)

• Polish: antarktyczny (pl), antarktydzki (pl) (rare)
• Portuguese: antártico (pt)
• Romanian: antarctic (ro)
• Russian: антаркти́ческий (ru) (antarktíčeskij)
• Spanish: antártico (es)
• Swedish: antarktisk (sv)
• Tagalog: Antartiko
• Vietnamese: châu Nam Cực, Nam Cực châu (dated)
• Welsh: Antarctig

Proper noun

Antarctic

1. One of the major ecozones of the world, covering the south polar regions. Especially those south of the Antarctic Convergence or the 60th parallel south (everywhere south of this parallel being administered by the Antarctic Treaty System).

Translations

Major ecozone

• Danish: Antarktis (da)
• Finnish: Antarktis (fi)
• Georgian: ანტარქტიკა (anṭarkṭiḳa)
• German: Antarktis (de) f
• Hungarian: Antarktisz (hu), Déli-sarkvidék
• Irish: An tAntartach m
• Khmer: អង់តាកទិក (ɑŋtaaktik)
• Manx: Yn Antarctagh f, Kione Jiass y Theihll m
• Norwegian: Antarktis (no)
• Polish: Antarktyka (pl)
• Portuguese: Antártico m
• Tagalog: Antartiko

See also

• Antarctic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia