nostalgia
English
/nɒˈstaldʒə/, /nɑˈstældʒə/
noun
Definitions
- A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.
- A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.
- Reminiscence of the speaker's childhood or younger years.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin nostalgia derived from Ancient Greek νόστος (returning home, a return home, journey, homecoming).
Origin
Ancient Greek
νόστος
Gloss
returning home, a return home, journey, homecoming
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Yugo-nostalgia English
- nostalgic English
- nostalgically English
- nostalgism English
- nostalgist English
- nostalgize English
- nostomania English
- nostophobia English
- unnostalgic English
- nostalgia Finnish
- nostalgia Latin
- Nostalgie German
- nosztalgia Hungarian
- nostalgia Italian
- nostalgico Italian
- nostalgie French
- nostalgia Spanish, Castilian
- νοστέω Ancient Greek
- νόστιμος Ancient Greek
- νόστος Ancient Greek
- *nes- Proto-Indo-European
- nostalgi Norwegian Bokmål
- nostalgia Portuguese
- ノスタルジア Japanese
- ノスタルジー Japanese
- nostalgi Norwegian Nynorsk
- nostalgi Danish
- nostalgie Czech
- nostàlgia Catalan, Valencian
- نوستالژی Persian
- νοσταλγία Greek (modern)