antarktisk

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From ant- (“anti-”) +‎ arktisk

Adjective

antarktisk (neuter singular antarktisk, definite singular and plural antarktiske)

  1. Antarctic (relating to Antarctica and the south polar region)

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From ant- (“anti-”) +‎ arktisk

Adjective

antarktisk (neuter singular antarktisk, definite singular and plural antarktiske)

  1. Antarctic (as above)

References

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin antarcticus (“southern, Antartic”), from Ancient Greek ἀνταρκτικός (antarktikós, “southerly located”), from ἀντί (antí, “ant-, against, opposed”) + ἀρκτικός (arktikós, “Arctic”), from ἄρκτος (árktos, “bear”).

Adjective

antarktisk (not comparable)

  1. Antarctic (as above)

Declension
Inflection of antarktisk
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular antarktisk — —
Neuter singular antarktiskt — —
Plural antarktiska — —
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 antarktiske — —
All antarktiska — —
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.

Derived terms

References
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