oceanicus

Forms

ōceanicus (feminine ōceanica, neuter ōceanicum); first/second-declension adjective^[1]

Etymology

It is formed from Latin ōceanus + -icus, an adjective of the word for the ocean.^[1][2][3]

Earliest recorded meaning

The only ancient example is in Pomponius Mela (43/44 AD), who says that the northern side of Germany is lined by the ocean shore (oceanico litore).^[2][4][3] The TLL marks the word as doubtful, because some manuscripts and older editions read oceano or oceani there instead.^[2]

Semantic evolution

The OLD and Georges give it only the sense “of the ocean”.^[5][4] It was taken up again in Medieval and New Latin for “oceanic”,^[1] and Italian oceanico comes from it.^[6]

Timeline

• 43/44 AD – Pomponius Mela speaks of the ocean shore of Germany.^[2][4][3]

Meanings

Adjective

1. Of or belonging to the ocean, oceanic.^[5][4][6][1]

Usage notes

The OLD prints it with a capital, Ōceanicus, as an adjective of Ōceanus, the Ocean.^[5]

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
3. ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
4. ^ a b c d Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
5. ^ a b c Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
6. ^ a b Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier