eureka

See also: Eureka and eurêka

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek εὕρηκα (heúrēka, I have found), perfect active indicative first singular of εὑρίσκω (heurískō, to find).

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /juˈɹikə/
  • Rhymes: -iːkə

Interjection

eureka

  1. An exclamation indicating sudden discovery.
    • 1821: Eureka! I have found it! What I mean / To say is, not that love is idleness, / But that in love such idleness has been / An accessory, as I have cause to guess. Byron, Don Juan, 1821
    • 1970: A page is turned - eureka, a snatch of tune / is playing itself, the piss-proud syllables / are unveiling a difficult prosody Peter Porter, The Sanitized Sonnets, in The Last of England, 1970

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

eureka (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of constantan (copper-nickel alloy)

See also


Dutch

Etymology

From Ancient Greek εὕρηκα (heúrēka, I have found), perfect active indicative 1st singular of εὑρίσκω (heurískō, I find).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /øːˈreːkaː/
  • (file)

Interjection

eureka

  1. eureka

Italian

Etymology

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛu̯.re.ka/
  • Hyphenation: èu‧re‧ka

Interjection

eureka

  1. eureka

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /euˈɾeka/, [eu̯ˈɾeka]

Interjection

eureka

  1. eureka
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