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

Descendants

• → English: eugenia
• → Russian: евге́ния (jevgénija), эвге́ния (evgénija)

References

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

English

Etymology

From 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: Яўгенія (Jaŭhjenija)
• 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:

  Brazilian: Eugênia (pt) f

  European: Eugénia (pt) f

• Romanian: Eugenia
• Russian: Евге́ния (ru) (Jevgénija)
• Serbo-Croatian: Евгенија, Evgenija (sh)
• Spanish: Eugenia (es)
• Swedish: Eugenia (sv)
• Ukrainain: Євгенія (uk) (Jevhenija)

Asteroid

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 香女星 (Xiāngnǚxīng), 欧亨尼娅

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.

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing 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 (male equivalent Eugeniusz, diminutive Genia)

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 Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /euˈxenja/ [eu̯ˈxe.nja]

• Audio (Mexico):

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

Proper noun

Eugenia f

1. a female given name, masculine equivalent Eugenio, equivalent to English Eugenia

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Eugenia c (genitive Eugenias)

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Eugenia