nostalgia

See also: nostalgía

English

Etymology

From New Latin nostalgia, coined from Ancient Greek νόστος (nóstos, “returning home”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”). Ancient Greek *νοσταλγία (*nostalgía) is unattested. Compare Italian nostalgia, Spanish nostalgia and French nostalgie.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /nɒˈstaldʒə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /nɑˈstældʒə/, /nɔˈstældʒə/

Noun

nostalgia (countable and uncountable, plural nostalgias)

  1. A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.
  2. A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.
    • 2013 August 16, Oliver Burkeman, “This is the cutest article”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 10, page 20:
      I can't have been the only person, last week, to feel a rush of nostalgia upon learning that Thames Water had removed a bus-sized, 15-tonne lump of food fat ("mixed with wet wipes") from the sewers under London. The fatberg was an August news story redolent of the old-fashioned silly season.
  3. Reminiscence of the speaker's childhood or younger years.

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Translations
longing for home or familiar surroundings — see homesickness
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Anagrams

Finnish

Etymology

From New Latin nostalgia, coined from Ancient Greek νόστος (nóstos, “returning home”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”).

Noun

nostalgia

  1. nostalgia

Declension
Inflection of nostalgia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative nostalgia nostalgiat
genitive nostalgian nostalgioiden
nostalgioitten
partitive nostalgiaa nostalgioita
illative nostalgiaan nostalgioihin
singular plural
nominative nostalgia nostalgiat
accusative nom. nostalgia nostalgiat
gen. nostalgian
genitive nostalgian nostalgioiden
nostalgioitten
nostalgiainrare
partitive nostalgiaa nostalgioita
inessive nostalgiassa nostalgioissa
elative nostalgiasta nostalgioista
illative nostalgiaan nostalgioihin
adessive nostalgialla nostalgioilla
ablative nostalgialta nostalgioilta
allative nostalgialle nostalgioille
essive nostalgiana nostalgioina
translative nostalgiaksi nostalgioiksi
instructive — nostalgioin
abessive nostalgiatta nostalgioitta
comitative — nostalgioineen

Derived terms

Italian

Etymology

From New Latin nostalgia, coined from Ancient Greek νόστος (nóstos, “returning home”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /nos.talˈd͡ʒi.a/
  • Hyphenation: nos‧tal‧gi‧a

Noun

nostalgia f (plural nostalgie)

  1. nostalgia, homesickness, longing

Anagrams

Polish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /nɔˈstal.ɡʲja/
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Noun

nostalgia f

  1. nostalgia (yearning for the past)

Declension
declension of nostalgia
singular plural
nominative nostalgia nostalgie
genitive nostalgii nostalgii/nostalgij
dative nostalgii nostalgiom
accusative nostalgię nostalgie
instrumental nostalgią nostalgiami
locative nostalgii nostalgiach
vocative nostalgio nostalgie

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Further reading

Portuguese

Etymology

From New Latin nostalgia, coined from Ancient Greek νόστος (nóstos, “returning home”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”).

Cognate with Galician nostalxia.

Pronunciation
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /nuʃ.taɫ.ˈʒi.ɐ/
  • Hyphenation: nos‧tal‧gi‧a

Noun

nostalgia f (plural nostalgias)

  1. nostalgia (yearning for the past)

Spanish

Etymology

From New Latin nostalgia, coined from Ancient Greek νόστος (nóstos, “returning home”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /nosˈtalxja/, [nosˈt̪alxja]
  • Hyphenation: nos‧tal‧gia

Noun

nostalgia m (plural nostalgias)

  1. nostalgia
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