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Melanesia

See also: melanesia and Melanésia

English

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Etymology

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From French Mélanésie (coined by Jules Dumont d'Urville), from Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas, “dark”) + νῆσος (nêsos, “island”), referring to the skin color of the inhabitants.

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Melanesia

  2. A continental region of Oceania, made up of New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Fiji.
    • 2004, Mary N. MacDonald, “Thinking and teaching with the indigenous traditions of Melanesia”, in Beyond primitivism: indigenous religious traditions and modernity, Routledge, →ISBN, page 315:
      My job, then, is that of a cultural and religious broker of sorts, co-opting Melanesia to serve as a stimulus to thought in Le Moyne classrooms.

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Latin

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Proper noun

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Melānēsia f sg (genitive Melānēsiae); first declension

  1. (New Latin) Melanesia (a continental region of Oceania, made up of New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Fiji)

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First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

singular
nominative Melānēsia
genitive Melānēsiae
dative Melānēsiae
accusative Melānēsiam
ablative Melānēsiā
vocative Melānēsia
locative Melānēsiae

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek, see English Melanesia.

Proper noun

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Melanesia

  1. Melanesia (a continental region of Oceania, made up of New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Fiji)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek, see English Melanesia.

Proper noun

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Melanesia

  1. Melanesia (a continental region of Oceania, made up of New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Fiji)

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