Pangaea

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Hyphenation 1.4 Proper noun 1.4.1 Translations 1.4.2 Alternative spellings 1.5 See also

English

Pronunciation

• pănjē'ə, /pænˈdʒiːə/, /p{n"dZi:@/

Etymology

Latin Pangaea from Greek παγγαία (pangaía), from πάν (pán) "all" + γή (gē) "earth"; coined by Alfred Wegener in 1915.

Hyphenation

pan·gae·a

Proper noun

Pangaea

1. A supercontinent that included all the landmasses of the earth before the Triassic Period and that broke up into Laurasia and Gondwana.

Translations

Arabic: بانجيا‏ (banjía) f. Bulgarian: Пангея (Pangeya) f. Catalan: Pangea f. Chinese: 盤古大陸 (Pángǔ dàlù) Czech: Pangea f. Danish: Pangæa Dutch: Pangea Esperanto: Pangeo French: Pangée f. German: Pangäa f. Greek: Παγγαία (Pangaía) f. Hebrew: פנגיאה (Pangía) f. Italian: Pangea f. Japanese: パンゲア大陸 (Pangea-tairikú)

Korean: 판게아 대륙 (Pangea daeryuk) Latin: Pangaea f. Letzeburgesh: Pangäa Lithuanian: Pangėja Persian: پانجه​آ (Panjēā) Polish: Pangea f. Portuguese: Pangéia f. Russian: Пангея (Pangéja) f. Slovak: Pangea f. Slovenian: Pangea f. Spanish: Pangea f. Swedish: Pangea Vietnamese: Pangaea Walloon: Pandjêye

Alternative spellings

• Pangea (mainly US)

See also

• Gondwanaland, Gondwana
• Laurasia