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Terra: Latin for 'earth' or 'land'. Related English words include terrestrial, territory and terrain. Incognita: from Latin cognoscere 'to know, be acquainted with' (negated by the prefix 'in-'), which is related to English know and Greek γνῶσις gnosis 'knowledge'. Related English words include agnostic, cognition, gnosticism.
unknown land terra nova: new land: Latin name of Newfoundland (island portion of Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, capital- St. John's), also root of French name of same, Terre-Neuve terra nullius: land of none: That is, no man's land. A neutral or uninhabited area, or a land not under the sovereignty of any recognized political ...
Terra nullius (/ ˈ t ɛr ə ˈ n ʌ l ɪ ə s /, [1] plural terrae nullius) is a Latin expression meaning "nobody's land". [2] Since the nineteenth century it has occasionally been used in international law as a principle to justify claims that territory may be acquired by a state's occupation of it.
It could derive from the borrowed Semitic root Asu, which means varyingly "rising" or "light", of course a directional referring to the sunrise, Asia thus meaning 'Eastern Land'. However, since the Greek name Asia is in all likelihood related to Hittite Assuwa, the etymology of one has to account for the other as well.
From the 16th century the English noun continent was derived from the term continent land, meaning continuous or connected land [5] and translated from the Latin terra continens. [6] The noun was used to mean "a connected or continuous tract of land" or mainland. [5]
Terra Australis (Latin: ' Southern Land ') was a hypothetical continent first posited in antiquity and which appeared on maps between the 15th and 18th centuries. Its existence was not based on any survey or direct observation, but rather on the idea that continental land in the Northern Hemisphere should be balanced by land in the Southern Hemisphere. [1]
The name Aestia was a combination of the Latin Aesti and the locative suffix -ia, meaning "Land of the Aesti" (a people first mentioned by Ancient Roman historian Tacitus around 98 AD).
Terra Australis (southern land), hypothetical continent appearing on maps from the 15th to the 18th century Terra incognita , unknown land, for regions that have not been mapped or documented Terra nullius , land belonging to no one, nobody's land, empty or desolate land