different between nostalgia vs madeleine

English

Etymology

From New Latin nostalgia, coined from Ancient Greek ?????? (nóstos, “returning home”) + ????? (álgos, “pain”). Ancient Greek *????????? (*nostalgía) is unattested. Compare Italian nostalgia, Spanish nostalgia, Portuguese nostalgia and saudade and French nostalgie.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /n??stald??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /n??stæld??/, /n??stæld??/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /n??stæld??/

Noun

nostalgia (countable and uncountable, plural nostalgias)

1. A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.
2. A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.
3. Reminiscence of the speaker's childhood or younger years.

Synonyms

• nostalgy

Derived terms

• nostalgic
• nostalgically

Antonyms

• nostopathy
• nostophobia

Translations

See also

• halcyon days
• hark back
• memory lane
• reminiscence

Anagrams

• analogist, antigoals, galtonias

Finnish

Etymology

From New Latin nostalgia, coined from Ancient Greek ?????? (nóstos, “returning home”) + ????? (álgos, “pain”).

Noun

nostalgia

1. nostalgia

Declension

Derived terms

• nostalgikko
• nostalginen
• nostalgisesti
• nostalgisoida
• nostalgisointi
• nostalgisuus

Italian

Etymology

From New Latin nostalgia, coined from Ancient Greek ?????? (nóstos, “returning home”) + ????? (álgos, “pain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nos.tal?d??i.a/
• Hyphenation: no?stal?gi?a

Noun

nostalgia f (plural nostalgie)

1. nostalgia, homesickness, longing

Related terms

• nostalgico

Anagrams

• angolasti
• lagnatosi
• stagliano

Polish

Etymology

From French nostalgie, from New Latin nostalgia, from Ancient Greek ?????? (nóstos) + ????? (álgos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??stal.??ja/

Noun

nostalgia f

1. nostalgia (yearning for the past)

Declension

Derived terms

• (nouns) nostalgik, nostalgiczka
• (adjective) nostalgiczny

Related terms

• (adverb) nostalgicznie

Further reading

• nostalgia in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• nostalgia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From New Latin nostalgia, coined from Ancient Greek ?????? (nóstos, “returning home”) + ????? (álgos, “pain”).

Cognate with Galician nostalxia.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /nu?.ta?.??i.?/
• Hyphenation: nos?tal?gi?a

Noun

nostalgia f (plural nostalgias)

1. nostalgia (yearning for the past)

Spanish

Etymology

From New Latin nostalgia, coined from Ancient Greek ?????? (nóstos, “returning home”) + ????? (álgos, “pain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nos?talxja/, [nos?t?al.xja]
• Hyphenation: nos?tal?gia

Noun

nostalgia f (plural nostalgias)

1. nostalgia

Related terms

• nostálgico

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French madeleine, from earlier gâteau à la Madeleine, after the given name Madeleine (“Magdalene”), of uncertain reference: attributed in some sources to a 19th-century pastry cook Madeleine Paulmier, whose existence is now considered dubious.

In sense 2, used with reference to the cake's function in the extract below, taken from Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?mad(?)l?n/, /?mad(?)l?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?mæd?l?n/, /?mæd??le?n/

Noun

madeleine (plural madeleines)

1. A French type of small gateau or sponge cake, often shaped like an elongated scallop shell.
2. (figuratively) Something which brings back a memory; a source of nostalgia or evocative memories.

Translations

Further reading

• “madeleine”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “madeleine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
• madeleine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from French madeleine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?del?i?n/, [?m?de?l?i?n]

Noun

madeleine

1. madeleine (small gateau in the shape of a scallop shell)

   Synonym: madeleine-leivos

Declension

French

Etymology

From earlier gâteau à la Madeleine, after the given name Madeleine (“Magdalene”), of uncertain reference: see more above.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.dl?n/

• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

madeleine f (plural madeleines)

1. madeleine (small gateau in the shape of a scallop shell)
2. (figuratively) madeleine (something which brings back a memory)

Derived terms

• pleurer comme une madeleine

Descendants

• ? Catalan: magdalena
• ? English: madeleine
• ? German: Madeleine

Further reading

• “madeleine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).