arctica
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.92 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A hypothetical continent that allegedly sank into the Arctic Ocean.
Etymology
From Latin arctica, from arcticus (“northern”), from Ancient Greek ἀρκτικός (arktikós, “northern”), from Ἄρκτος (Árktos, “Arctos, the Great Bear Constellation”), the constellation Ursa Major which points to the North Celestial Pole, from ἄρκτος (árktos, “bear”), the star pattern shape of the constellation Arctos.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: arctica, ἀρκτικός