Click to read further detail. Just so, what does the word Asia mean?
Some historians say that the word "Asia" was derived from the Phoenician word asa which means "east." The ancient Romans picked up the word from the Greeks. The Latin word oriens means "rising" -- the sun rises in the east, so any people originating from that direction were eventually referred to as Orientals.
Subsequently, question is, where does the word Africa come from? The name Africa came into Western use through the Romans, who used the name Africa terra — "land of the Afri" (plural, or "Afer" singular) — for the northern part of the continent, as the province of Africa with its capital Carthage, corresponding to modern-day Tunisia.
Subsequently, one may also ask, what is another name for Asian?
In this page you can discover 28 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for asian, like: oriental, mongolian, oriental, far-eastern, mongolian, east-asian, middle-eastern, near Eastern, eastern, confucian and levantine.
Where does the word Europe come from?
For Homer, Europa (Greek: Ευρώπη) was a mythological queen of Crete, not a geographical designation. Later Europa stood for mainland Greece and by 500 BC its meaning was extended to lands to the north. The term Europe is generally derived from Greek words meaning broad (eurys) and face (ops).
