Where does “occean” come from?

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

occean (Middle English): A large sea believed to encircle the world's...

Definitions

  1. A large sea believed to encircle the world's...

Ancestry of “occean”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchocceanocean
2LatinŌceanus
3Ancient Greekὠκεανόςocean
4Ancient GreekὨκεανόςthe great earth-encircling river; Oceanus, a...

Words derived from “occean

Every word from Ancient Greek ὨκεανόςEvery word from Ancient Greek ὠκεανόςEvery word from Latin Ōceanus
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