arcipelago

Concepts

archipelago

magistral

island group

Translations

archipel

archipiélago

Archipel

arquipélago

αρχιπέλαγος

arxipèlag

archipel

Inselgruppe

أرخبيل

eilandengroep

archipelagus

takımadalar

archipèla

takımada

Hyphenated as

ar‧ci‧pè‧la‧go

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ar.t͡ʃiˈpɛ.la.ɡo/

Etymology

Formed on the basis of Ancient Greek ἀρχι- (arkhi-, “main”) + πέλαγος (pélagos, “sea”), a designation for the Aegean Sea. The Aegean Sea is a sea with many islands; the term Arcipelago, originally a proper noun referring to the Aegean Sea, was first generalized to a common noun for any sea with many islands, and then to the islands in such a sea.