Antarctic
adjUK /ænˈtɑː(k)tɪk/ · US /ænˈtɑɹ(k)tɪk/
Etymology From Middle English antartik, antartyk, from Middle French antartique, from Latin antarcticus, from Ancient Greek ἀνταρκτικός (antarktikós), from ἀντί (antí, “opposite”) + ἀρκτικός (arktikós, “Arctic”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”). By surface analysis, anti- + Arctic.
1
Of, from, or pertaining to Antarctica and the south polar regions.
- We are likely to consider Antarctic English as an occupational variety of general English rather than a new regional variety, mainly because men go to work in the Antarctic for a period, intending to return. They are not settlers.1972, George William Turner, The English Language in Australia and New Zealand, Longman, →ISBN, page 67:
- Scientists have known for years that the Thwaites glacier is the soft underbelly of the Antarctic ice sheet, and first found that it was unstable decades ago.2014 May 12, Suzanne Goldenberg, “Western Antarctic ice sheet collapse has already begun, scientists warn”, in The Guardian:
2
Figuratively, Obsolete Opposite, contradictory.
3
Obsolete Southern.
- Derived terms
- Antarctic 10, Antarctic Circle, Antarctic cod, Antarctic Convergence, Antarctic English, Antarctic Ocean, Antarctic petrel, Antarctic toothfish, Antarctic wolf, British Antarctic Territory
- Related terms
- Antarctica