Eugenia

Eugenia

See also: eugenia, Eugénia, Eugênia, and Eugenią

Translingual

Eugenia uniflora (Surinam cherry)

Etymology

Ancient Greek Εὐγενία (Eugenía), feminine nominate singular form of Εὐγένιος (Eugénios, “well born”)

Proper noun

Eugenia f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Myrtaceae.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Plantae - kingdom; Viridiplantae - subkingdom; Streptophyta - infrakingdom; Embryophyta - superphylum; Tracheophyta - phylum; Spermatophytina - subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, malvids - clades; Myrtales - order; Myrtaceae - family; Myrtoideae - subfamily; Myrteae - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Eugenia uniflora - type species; for other species see Eugenia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Derived terms

• Myrceugenia

References

• Eugenia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Eugenia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Eugenia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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English

Etymology

Ancient Greek Εὐγενία (Eugenía), feminine form of Εὐγένιος (Eugénios) ( =Eugene) "well born".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /juːˈd͡ʒiːniə/, /juːˈd͡ʒɛniə/

Proper noun

Eugenia

1. A female given name from Ancient Greek. Variant: Eugenie.
2. (astronomy) 45 Eugenia, a main belt asteroid.

Synonyms

• (astronomy): 45 Eugenia, ㊺

Related terms

• Eugenie

Translations

female given name

Armenian: Եվգինե (Evgine), Եվգենյա (Evgenya) Belarusian: Евгения (Jevhjenija) Bulgarian: Евгения (Evgenija) Catalan: Eugènia Czech: Evženie (cs) Finnish: Senni (fi) French: Eugénie (fr) Galician: Uxía (gl) Georgian: ევგენია (evgenia) German: Eugenie Hungarian: Eugénia (hu) Italian: Eugenia (it) Japanese: エウヘニア Latvian: Eiženija f Norwegian: Eugenia Occitan: Eugenia f Polish: Eugenia (pl) Portuguese: Eugénia (pt) f (Portugal), Eugênia (pt) f (Brazil) Romanian: Eugenia Russian: Евге́ния (ru) (Jevgénija) Serbo-Croatian: Евгенија, Evgenija (sh) Spanish: Eugenia (es) Swedish: Eugenia (sv) Ukrainain: Євгенія (Jevhenija)

Asteroid

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Occitan

Proper noun

Eugenia f

1. (Gascony) a female given name, equivalent to English Eugenia

Related terms

• Eugèni (male)

References

• Patric Guilhemjoan, Diccionari elementari occitan-francés francés-occitan (gascon), 2005, Orthez, per noste, 2005, →ISBN, page 148.

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Εὐγενία (Eugenía), feminine form of Εὐγένιος (Eugénios).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛwˈɡɛɲ.ja/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɛɲja
• Syllabification: Eu‧gen‧ia

Proper noun

Eugenia f (diminutive Genia, masculine Eugeniusz)

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Eugenia

Declension

Declension of Eugenia

	singular	plural
nominative	Eugenia	Eugenie
genitive	Eugenii	Eugenii/Eugenij (archaic)
dative	Eugenii	Eugeniom
accusative	Eugenię	Eugenie
instrumental	Eugenią	Eugeniami
locative	Eugenii	Eugeniach
vocative	Eugenio	Eugenie

Further reading

• Eugenia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Eugenia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /euˈxenja/ [eu̯ˈxe.nja]

• Audio (Mexico)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -enja
• Syllabification: Eu‧ge‧nia

Proper noun

Eugenia f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Eugenia

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Swedish

Proper noun

Eugenia c (genitive Eugenias)

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Eugenia