Corea
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -iːə
Proper noun
[edit]Corea
- Archaic spelling of Korea.
- 1699, William Dampier, A New Voyage round the World, page 274:
- I would take the ſame method if I was to go to diſcover the North Eaſt Paſſage. I would winter about Japan, Corea, or the North Eaſt part of China; and taking the Spring and Summer before me, I would make my firſt trial on the Coaſt of Tartary [...]
- 1788, Jean-Baptiste Grosier, translated by unknown, A General Description of China, page 245:
- The Mantchews, thus maſters of Corea, endeavoured to compel their new ſubjects to ſhave their heads, after their manner, and to adopt the Tartar dreſs.
- 1888 April 7, “'The Hermit Land.'”, in Chambers's Journal (Fifth Series)[1], volume V, number 223, →OCLC, page 209:
- The Amnok, called also the Yalu, is a fine river which divides Corea from Manchuria.
- 1922, Elizabeth F. Parker, Amber, page 12:
- In the latter country it is mostly black and known as Whitby jet, while in Corea and Japan it is red in color and opaque.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Corea.
Usage notes
[edit]- 1999, Keith Pratt and Richard Rutt with additional material by James Hoare, Korea: A Historical and Cultural Dictionary, Routledge, page 232
- 'Corea' (1613) soon became normal, but 'Korea' appears as early as 1738 and was generally accepted in the 19th century, though 'Corea' lingered as a rarity until 1940.
- 2004, Andrew C. Nahm, James E. Hoare, Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Korea, Scarecrow Press, pages 95–96:
- In the late 1990s, a number of South Koreans began to claim that the Japanese had deliberately fostered the use of Korea rather than Corea so that Japan would be listed before Korea in country lists. [...]
- 2006, Samuel S. Kim, The Two Koreas and the Great Powers, Cambridge University Press, page 50:
- [T]he spelling of Korea with a "K" is sometimes alleged to be a Japanese invention from the colonial period so that Korea would follow Japan in alphabetical listings in the Roman alphabet.
Further reading
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[edit]Asturian
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Corea f
- Korea (two countries of East Asia, North Korea and South Korea; the peninsula containing these two countries)
Related terms
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Corea f
- Korea (two countries of East Asia, North Korea and South Korea; the peninsula containing these two countries)
Derived terms
[edit]Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Corea f
- Korea (two countries of East Asia, North Korea and South Korea; the peninsula containing these two countries)
Derived terms
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately from Portuguese Core. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /koˈreː.a/, [kɔˈreːä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /koˈre.a/, [koˈrɛːä]
Proper noun
[edit]Corēa f sg (genitive Corēae); first declension
- (New Latin) Korea (two countries of East Asia, North Korea and South Korea; the peninsula containing these two countries)
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | Corēa |
Genitive | Corēae |
Dative | Corēae |
Accusative | Corēam |
Ablative | Corēā |
Vocative | Corēa |
Meronyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- Corēa Merīdiāna f
- Corēa Septentriōnālis f
- corēānicus
- corēānus, Corēānus, korēānus (adj. Korean)
- koraiēnsis
Romansch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Corea f
- Korea (two countries of East Asia, North Korea and South Korea; the peninsula containing these two countries)
Derived terms
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Corea f
- Korea (two countries of East Asia, North Korea and South Korea; the peninsula containing these two countries)
- a surname
Derived terms
[edit]Welsh
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English Korea, Corea, from Dutch Core. Ultimately from Korean 고려(高麗) (Goryeo).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Corea f
- Korea (two countries of East Asia, North Korea and South Korea; the peninsula containing these two countries)
Derived terms
[edit]- Coread (“Korean person”)
- Coreaidd (“Korean”)
- Corëeg (“Korean language”)
- De Corea (“South Korea”)
- Gogledd Corea (“South Korea”)
- Gweriniaeth Corea (“Republic of Korea”)
- Gweriniaeth Pobl Ddemocrataidd Corea (“People's Democratic Republic of Korea”)
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