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Greek
Etymology
Learned borrowing from French nostalgie,[1] from New Latin nostalgia;[2] a neoclassical compound[3] coined from Ancient Greek νόστ(ος) (nóst(os), “journey”) + ἄλγ(ος) (álg(os), “pain”) + suffix -ία (-ía).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /no.stalˈʝi.a/
- Hyphenation: νο‧σταλ‧γί‧α
Noun
νοσταλγία • (nostalgía) f (usually uncountable, plural νοσταλγίες)
- nostalgia, homesickness
- nostalgia (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)
Declension
Usually in the singular.
Derived terms
References
- ^ νοσταλγία, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
- ^ Etymology and history of “nostalgie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
- ^ νοσταλγία - νοσταλγία - Babiniotis, Georgios (2002) Λεξικό της νέας ελληνικής γλώσσας: [Dictionary of Modern Greek (language)] (in Greek), 2nd edition, Athens: Kentro Lexikologias , 1st edition 1998, →ISBN.
His term concerning morphology of the neoclassical compound, is ελληνογενής ξένος όρος