occean
Middle English
/ˈɔːsjan/
noun
Definitions
- A large sea believed to encircle the world's land.
- Any ocean large body of water
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French occean derived from Latin Ōceanus derived from Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός (Oceanus, a water deity, the great earth-encircling river).
Origin
Ancient Greek
Ὠκεανός
Gloss
Oceanus, a water deity, the great earth-encircling river
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Oceanus Latin
- oceanus Latin
- Ōceanus Latin
- Ōceānus Latin
- ōceanus Latin
- Okeanos German
- Océanie French
- Ὠκεανός Ancient Greek
- *ō-kei-m̥[h₁]no- Proto-Indo-European
- osean Norwegian Bokmål
- osean Norwegian Nynorsk
- *ocean Middle English
- أُوقْيَانُوس Arabic
- occean Old French
- okeāns Latvian
- océn Old Irish
- ocean Middle French
- ოკეანე Georgian