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

2. A geographic region of Northern Europe, consisting of 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.

4. A peninsula in Northern Europe, consisting of Norway, Sweden and most of northern Finland; in full, 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)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܸܣܟܲܢܕܝܼܢܵܒ̮ܝܼܵܐ f (iskandīnāvīyā)
• Asturian: Escandinavia (ast) 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 (ja) (Sukandinavia), スカンジナビア (Sukanjinabia), スカンディナビア (ja) (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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Translations to be checked

• 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 (a geographic region of Northern Europe, consisting of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden collectively and sometimes Finland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands)
2. Scandinavia (a peninsula in Northern Europe, consisting of Norway, Sweden and most of northern Finland)

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 Latin) 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 (a geographic region of Northern Europe, consisting of modern Denmark, Norway, and Sweden collectively and sometimes Finland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands)
2. Scandinavia, Scandinavian Peninsula (a peninsula in Northern Europe, consisting of Norway, Sweden and most of northern Finland)
3. a large and fertile island in Northern Europe, perhaps Zealand or Scania

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	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.