From en.wiktionary.org:
[arctic]
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Etymology
[en] [en] From [en] (with _-c-_ reintroduced after Latin in the 17th century),
from [en], from [en], from [grc], from [en]. Cognate with [la].
*** Pronunciation
- [en] [see usage notes]
- [en] [see usage notes]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Adjective
[-]
1. [en] Pertaining to the celestial north pole , or to the pole star . [from 14th c.]
2. [en] Pertaining to the northern polar region of the planet , characterised by extreme cold and an icy landscape. [from 16th c.]
3. * [year=1622]
4. * [edition=1668]
5. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1788 | author=w:Samuel Jackson Pratt | title=Humanity, or the Rights of Nature | location=London | publisher=T. Cadell | section=Book 2, p. 96 | url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004804259.0001.000
|passage=See <small>FREEDOM</small> smiling thro’ the realms of frost,<br>And
glow on Labradore’s inclement coast,<br>Tho’ darkness sheds deep night thro’
half the year,<br>And snow invests the clime,—that clime is dear,<br>For there
fair <small>LIBERTY</small> resides, and there<br>At large the native breasts
the searching air,<br>Where blows the ARCTIC tempests icy gale,<br>And famine
seizes on the spermy whale,}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1968 | author=w:Robert Conquest | chapter=A Nation in Torment | title= [The Great Terror (book)] | url=https://archive.org/details/greatterrorstali0000conq/
|publisher=w:Macmillan
Company|LCCN=68-17513|OCLC=1169910711|OL=21272570M|page=327|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/greatterrorstali0000conq/page/327/
|text=A medical examination determined who was to be sent on to Norilsk in the
ARCTIC.}}
1. Extremely cold , snowy , or having other properties of extreme winter associated with the Arctic. [from 16th c.]
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1979 | author=w:John Le Carré | title=Smiley's People | page=45 | publisher=Folio Society | year_published=2010
|passage=‘Could you close that window, please!’ Strickland called, dialling
again. ‘It's bloody ARCTIC down this end.’}}
1. Designed for use in very cold conditions. [from 19th c.]
**** Usage notes
- Similarly to [en] , the English word was originally pronounced without [/k/] , but the spelling pronunciation has become the more common one. The "c" was originally added to the spelling for etymological reasons, and its pronunciation followed thereafter. < !--Information here accords with 吴语: Arctic#cite_note-3 as of 2023-02-21; changes to either place should accord with the other and with the references cited at the WP note.-->
**** Translations
[pertaining to the northern polar region of the planet]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greenlandic: [kl]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is] , [is] , [is] , [is]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Khmer: [km]
- Lao: [lo]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Manx: [gv]
- Norwegian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] [obsolete]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr] [loanword] , [tr] [adjectival noun]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Welsh: [cy]
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[cold, snowy, or having other properties of extreme winter associated with the
Arctic]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Irish: [ga]
- Malay: [ms]
- Manx: [gv]
- Maori: [mi]
- Northern Sami: [se]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] [obsolete]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
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*** Proper noun
[en-proper noun]
1. [en] The north celestial pole . [15th]
2. [en] [en] . [from 17th c.]
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1772 | author= [Richard Cumberland (dramatist)] | title=w:The Fashionable Lover | location=London | publisher=W. Griffin | section=act IV | page=46 | url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004781973.0001.000
|passage=I’ve visited the world from ARCTIC to ecliptic, as a surgeon does a
hospital, and find all men sick of some distemper [...]}}
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|Arctic blue|Arctic blues|Arctic ground squirrel|Arctic warbler|Arctic
dog disease|Arctic haze |Arctic char ([Salvelinus alpinus]) |Arctic cod
([Arctogadus glacialis], [Boreogadus saida]) |Arctic loon ([Gavia arctica])
|Arctic Sea |Arctic Ocean |Arctic skua ([Stercorarius parasiticus]) |Arctic
wolf spider ([Pardosa glacialis]) |Arctic Circle |Arctic conditions |Arctic
fox ([Vulpes lagopus]) |Arctic hare ([Lepus arcticus]) |[Arctic tern] ([Sterna
paradisaea]) |Northwest Arctic Borough |subarctic }}
**** Translations
[continental region north of the Arctic Circle]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Chinese:
- Chukchi: [ckt]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Greenlandic: [kl]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is] , [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Lao: [lo] , [lo]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Manx: [gv]
- Mongolian: [mn] , [mn]
- Norwegian:
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] [obsolete]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Thai: [th]
- Tigrinya: [ti]
- Tongan: [to]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
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*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A warm waterproof overshoe . [from 19th c.]
2. Any of various butterflies of the genus [Oeneis] . [from 20th c.]
**** Translations
[butterfly of the genus _Oeneis_]
- Finnish: [fi]
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*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]