Where does “ocean” come from?

Ocean comes from Middle English occean, from Old French occean, from Latin Oceanus, from Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός, originally the name of a Titan deity personifying the great waters encircling the world.

ocean (English): One of the large bodies of water separating the...

Definitions

  1. One of the large bodies of water separating the...

Ancestry of “ocean”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle EnglishocceanA large sea believed to encircle the world's...
2Old Frenchocceanocean
3LatinŌceanus
4Ancient Greekὠκεανόςocean
5Ancient GreekὨκεανόςthe great earth-encircling river; Oceanus, a...

Words derived from “ocean

Every word from Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός
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