Asia

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A continent located east of Europe (typically delimited by the Urals), west of the Pacific Ocean, north of Oceania and south of the Arctic Ocean.
• A daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, the wife of the Titan, Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus and Menoetius.
• 67 Asia, a main belt asteroid.
• A female given name from place names.
• A province of the Roman Empire located in what is now western Turkey.

Origin

• From Middle English Asia, Asie, from Old French Asie and Latin Asia, from Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓σῐ́ᾱ, from Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀯𐀹𐀊, in turn probably from Hittite 𒀸𒋗𒉿 of uncertain origin. Potentially from a Aegean language family substrate or Akkadian; for more see its ancestors.