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Africa
A Roman term Africa terra "African land", the land of Africus, the northern part of Africa, a part of the Roman Empire. The Roman name has possibly its roots in the Phoenician term Afryqah, meaning "colony", as transliterated into Roman Latin.
America
The name America was first used in 1507 by the Cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in its treatise "Cosmographiae Introductio" to name the New World, after Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian navigator who made two (or four) trips to America with Spanish and Portuguese expeditions, it was Vespucci who first recognized that America was a new continent, and not part of Asia.
Asia
Latin and Greek origin - the "Eastern Land", it is speculated to be from the word asu "to go out, to rise," in reference to the sun, thus "the land of the sunrise."
Australia
Latin - Terra Australis incognita the "Unknown Southern Land", an imaginary, hypothetical continent, a large landmass in the south of the Indian Ocean, the supposed counterpart of the Northern Hemisphere (see: Map of the World by Pieter van den Keere).
Europe
Latin and Greek origin. Europa, Europe, often explained as "broad face," from eurys"wide" and ops "face." Some suggests a possible semantic origin by the Sumerian term erebu with the meaning of "darkness" and "to go down, set" (in reference to the sun) which would parallel Orient.
Oceania
From the French Term Océanie, the southern Pacific Islands and Australia, conceived as a continent".
Antarctic
Old French: antartique, in Modern Latin: antarcticus, in Greek: antarktikos, from anti: "opposite" + arktikos: "of the north".
Other Names for the Continents.
"Latin America", the term denotes the regions of the American continent where Romance languages are spoken like in Mexico, in parts of Central and South America and the islands in the Caribbean; ("Latin" here is used as a designation for "people whose languages descend from Latin" especially Spanish, and Portuguese; see also: Languages of the World).
"New World" for North America.
Occident, (Europe) from the Latin term occidentem "western sky, part of the sky in which the sun sets".
Orient, "the East" (originally, usually meaning what is now called the Middle-East) from the Latin term orientem "the east part of the sky where the sun is rising".
Far East, the Eastern Hemisphere = Asia.
Down Under, colloq.: the term refers to Australia and New Zealand, or Australia alone.
source:Sciencefact
Professora Hakimi Kazumi
Asianism
A Roman term Africa terra "African land", the land of Africus, the northern part of Africa, a part of the Roman Empire. The Roman name has possibly its roots in the Phoenician term Afryqah, meaning "colony", as transliterated into Roman Latin.
America
The name America was first used in 1507 by the Cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in its treatise "Cosmographiae Introductio" to name the New World, after Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian navigator who made two (or four) trips to America with Spanish and Portuguese expeditions, it was Vespucci who first recognized that America was a new continent, and not part of Asia.
Asia
Latin and Greek origin - the "Eastern Land", it is speculated to be from the word asu "to go out, to rise," in reference to the sun, thus "the land of the sunrise."
Australia
Latin - Terra Australis incognita the "Unknown Southern Land", an imaginary, hypothetical continent, a large landmass in the south of the Indian Ocean, the supposed counterpart of the Northern Hemisphere (see: Map of the World by Pieter van den Keere).
Europe
Latin and Greek origin. Europa, Europe, often explained as "broad face," from eurys"wide" and ops "face." Some suggests a possible semantic origin by the Sumerian term erebu with the meaning of "darkness" and "to go down, set" (in reference to the sun) which would parallel Orient.
Oceania
From the French Term Océanie, the southern Pacific Islands and Australia, conceived as a continent".
Antarctic
Old French: antartique, in Modern Latin: antarcticus, in Greek: antarktikos, from anti: "opposite" + arktikos: "of the north".
Other Names for the Continents.
"Latin America", the term denotes the regions of the American continent where Romance languages are spoken like in Mexico, in parts of Central and South America and the islands in the Caribbean; ("Latin" here is used as a designation for "people whose languages descend from Latin" especially Spanish, and Portuguese; see also: Languages of the World).
"New World" for North America.
Occident, (Europe) from the Latin term occidentem "western sky, part of the sky in which the sun sets".
Orient, "the East" (originally, usually meaning what is now called the Middle-East) from the Latin term orientem "the east part of the sky where the sun is rising".
Far East, the Eastern Hemisphere = Asia.
Down Under, colloq.: the term refers to Australia and New Zealand, or Australia alone.
source:Sciencefact
Professora Hakimi Kazumi
Asianism