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The interjection Eureka! originally comes from what language?

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  1. Greek.

    Although I'm still trying to fathom why this question is under "United States".

    Maybe you thought it was Syracuse NY?


  2. Ancient Greek

  3. It is most famously attributed to the ancient Greek scholar Archimedes; he reportedly proclaimed, "Eureka!" when he stepped into a bath and noticed that the water level rose – he suddenly understood that the volume of water displaced must be equal to the volume of the part of his body he had submerged. This meant that the volume of irregular objects could be calculated with precision, a previously intractable problem. He is said to have been so eager to share his realisation that he leapt out of his bathtub and ran through the streets of Syracuse naked.

  4. greek i have found it !

  5. the word Eureka is a greek word meaning 'I have found it!'

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