Eureka

Etymology
From εὕρηκα:, perfect active indicative 1st singular of εὑρίσκω:.

Interjection

 * 1) An exclamation indicating sudden discovery.
 * 2) * 1821: Eureka! I have found it! What I mean / To say is, not that love is idleness, / But that in love such idleness has been / An accessory, as I have cause to guess. &mdash; Byron, Don Juan, 1821
 * 3) * 1970: A page is turned - eureka, a snatch of tune / is playing itself, the piss-proud syllables / are unveiling a difficult prosody &mdash; Peter Porter, The Sanitized Sonnets, in The Last of England, 1970

Derived terms

 * eureka effect
 * eureka moment

Translations

 * Catalan: eureka
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 我發現了！, 我发现了！ (wǒ fāxiàn le), 我找到了！ (wǒ zhǎodào le)
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Heureka


 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: það tókst!, þar kom það!, ég hef fundið það!
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese: eureca
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,

Interjection

 * 1) eureka

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