oceanus
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See also: Oceanus
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὠκεᾰνός m (ōkeănós).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /oːˈke.a.nus/, [oːˈkeänʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /oˈt͡ʃe.a.nus/, [oˈt͡ʃɛːänus]
Noun
ōceanus m (genitive ōceanī); second declension
- ocean, sea
- (Medieval Latin) any large body of water, including a channel or river
- Ōceanus Britannicus
- the English Channel
- (literally, “[the] British Ocean”)
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
- Ōceanus Ā̆tlanticus
- Ōceanus Britannicus
- Ōceanus Deucaledonius
- Ōceanus Germānicus
- Ōceanus Pācificus
- Ōceanus Vergivius
Related terms
- Ōceanus m
Descendants
- Catalan: oceà
- French: océan m
- Friulian: ocean
- Italian: oceano
- Occitan: ocean m
- Piedmontese: ocean
- Romanian: ocean n
- Sicilian: ucèanu
- Spanish: océano
- → Basque: ozeano
- → Dutch: oceaan
- → English: ocean
- → Galician: océano
- → German: Ozean
- → Old Irish: océn
- Irish: aigéan
- Scottish Gaelic: aigeann
- → Portuguese: oceano
- → Welsh: eigion
Further reading
- “oceanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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