# Pangaea

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /pænˈd͡ʒiː.ə/ · frequency rank #87,653

## Definitions
1. A former supercontinent that included all the landmasses of the earth before the Triassic period and that broke up into Laurasia and Gondwana.

## Etymology
From Ancient Greek παν- (pan-, “all”) + γαῖα (gaîa, “earth, land”), after German Pangäa, which was coined by Alfred Wegener in 1915. Analyzable as pan- + Gaea.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/pangaea