eureca

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• heureca, eureka, heureka

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek εὕρηκᾰ (heúrēkă), first-person singular perfect active indicative of εὑρίσκω (heurískō, “to find; to find out”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ewˈɾɛ.kɐ/ [eʊ̯ˈɾɛ.kɐ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ewˈɾɛ.kɐ/

• Rhymes: -ɛkɐ
• Hyphenation: eu‧re‧ca

Interjection

eureca!

1. eureka (exclamation indicating sudden discovery)

Further reading

• “eureca”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “eureca”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026