Mallorca

Meaning

Mallorca, Majorca (an island in the Mediterranean; largest of the Balearic Islands)

Concepts

Majorca

Mallorca

Translations

Majorque

Maiorca

Mallorca

Mallorca

Μαγιόρκα

Majorca

Maiorca

Malhòrca

Balearis Maior

Mayorka

Mallorca

Maiorica

مايوركا

مَيُورْقَة

Pronounced as (IPA)

[məˈʎɔr.kə]

Etymology

From Late Latin Maiorica, from Latin maior (“larger”) + -ica (“ethnonym suffix”), because the island is larger than Menorca. The change from -i- to -ll- is a hypercorrection against the iodització of the Mallorcan dialect of Catalan.