Antarctic

Significado (Inglés)

Adj

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Antarctica and the south polar regions.
2. (figuratively, obsolete) Opposite, contradictory.
3. (obsolete) Southern.

Name

A continental region, one of the major ecozones of the world, covering the south polar regions, especially those south of the Antarctic Convergence; or, in accordance with the Antarctic Treaty System, the 60th parallel south.

Conceptos

antártico

Antártida

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antárctico

antárctica

Sinónimos

Antarctica

🇦🇶

South Pole

Antarctic Zone

South Frigid Zone

south-polar

antarctic

opposite

south pole

Antarctican

the Antarctic

Traducciones

antarctique

antartico

antarctisch

antarktisch

ανταρκτικός

Antarktis

Région antarctique

Antarctique

🇦🇶

antárctico

Antarctis

antàrtic

südpolar

Antarctisch

antártico

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ænˈtɑː(k)tɪk/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: antartik

In summary

From Middle English antartik, antartyk, from Middle 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.