Australasia

Borrowed from French Australasie, coined by French scholar and politician Charles de Brosses in 1756, from the Latin for “south of Asia”.^[1]

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɒstɹ(ə)lˈeɪʒə/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌɔstɹl̩ˈæɪʒɐ/
• Rhymes: -eɪʒə

Australasia

1. Synonym of Oceania: a continent or continental region composed of Australia, New Zealand and the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.
3. A continental region in Oceania, consisting of Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea and neighbouring islands.

   Holonym: Oceania

This is an ambiguous term, whose precise meaning varies considerably depending on its field of use. It has been used interchangeably with the word Oceania.

• Australasian (adjective)

Likely borrowed from English Australasia, Portuguese Australásia f, or Spanish Australasia f, or directly from French Australasie f. By surface analysis, austrālis (“southern”) +‎ Ā̆sia (“Asia”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [au̯s.traˈɫaː.si.a], [au̯s.traˈɫa.si.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [au̯s.t̪raˈlaː.s̬i.a]

Australasia f sg (genitive Australasiae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Australasia (a continental region in Oceania, consisting of Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea and neighbouring islands)

First-declension noun, singular only.

• australasicus

• Translingual: Tenodera australasiae

• IPA^(key): /austɾaˈlasja/ [au̯s.t̪ɾaˈla.sja]
• Rhymes: -asja
• Syllabification: Aus‧tra‧la‧sia

Australasia f

1. Australasia (a continental region in Oceania, consisting of Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea and neighbouring islands)