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Where does “oceanless” come from?

oceanless (English) comes from English ocean, from Middle English occean, from Old French occean, from Latin Ōceanus, from Ancient Greek ὠκεανός, from Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός — the great earth-encircling river; Oceanus, a...

oceanless (English): Without an ocean

Definitions

  1. Without an ocean

Ancestry of “oceanless”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishoceanOne of the large bodies of water separating the...
2Middle EnglishocceanA large sea believed to encircle the world's...
3Old Frenchocceanocean
4LatinŌceanus—
5Ancient Greekὠκεανόςocean
6Ancient GreekὨκεανόςthe great earth-encircling river; Oceanus, a...
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