eureka en · INTJ
Pronunciation
- /jʊˈɹiː.kə/ (US)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /jəˈɹiː.kə/ (UK)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek εὕρηκα (heúrēka, “I have found”), perfect active indicative first person singular of εὑρίσκω (heurískō, “to find”). Archimedes supposedly exclaimed this when he figured out how to determine the density of an object. First use appears c. 1603 in a text by Philemon Holland.
Meanings
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An exclamation indicating a sudden discovery.
"Eureka!" he cried, his teeth shining through his beard. "Gentlemen, you may congratulate me and we may congratulate each other. The problem is solved."
1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC: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.
1821, Byron, Don Juan:I rolled back the rug and eureka - there it was!
A page is turned - eureka, a snatch of tune / is playing itself, the piss-proud syllables / are unveiling a difficult prosody.
1970, Peter Porter, The Sanitized Sonnets, The Last of England:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| eureka! | canonical | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Translations (44)
uk е́врика (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · el εύρηκα (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · tr evreka (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · mk е́врека (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · pt eureca (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · pt heureca (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · ar لَقَدْ وَجَدتُهَا! (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · vi ơ-rê-ca (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · sq e gjeta (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · es eureka (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · pl heureka (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · sq aha (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · ru э́врика (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · mk еуре́ка (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · hu heuréka (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · sv eureka (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · ca eureka (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · sv heureka (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · ja 見つけた (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · cmn 我發現了！ /我发现了！ (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · fr eurêka (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · is ég hef fundið það (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · cs heuréka (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · fi heureka (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · tr buldum (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · bg е́врика (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · ja エウレカ (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · ml യുറീക്ക (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · ro evrica (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · pl eureka (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · de heureka (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · sq eureka (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · cmn 我找到了！ (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · ja ユーレカ (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · is þar kom það (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · fa یافتم (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · ja 我発見せり (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · it eureka (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · da heureka (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · be э́ўрыка (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · is það tókst (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · ja わかった (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · cmn 尤里卡 (exclamation indicating sudden discovery) · ar يُورِيكَا (exclamation indicating sudden discovery)