Eureka

Pronunciation

• US IPA: /juˈɹikÉ™/
• Rhymes: -iːkÉ™

Origin

From Ancient Greek εὕρηκα (heurēka, "I have found"), perfect active indicative 1st singular of εὑρίσκω (heuriskō, "I find").

Interjection

1. An exclamation indicating sudden discovery.
• 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. — Byron, Don Juan, 1821
• 1970: A page is turned - eureka, a snatch of tune
  is playing itself, the piss-proud syllables
  are unveiling a difficult prosody — Peter Porter, The Sanitized Sonnets, in The Last of England, 1970

Derived terms

• eureka effect
• eureka moment