oceanus Latin · revision 9362

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=Ennius|origins=grc ὠκεανός}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [oːˈke.a.nʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [oˈt͡ʃɛː.a.nus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ōceanus''' ''m'' (genitive ōceanī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ A neuter ''Ōceanum'' appears in Ampelius.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|ὠκεανός|tr=ōkeanós|t=the great river surrounding the earth]], a word of unknown origin.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation for the ocean is from Ennius.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Ennius 204–169 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was the ocean, which the ancients pictured as a sea flowing round the known lands, and in Cicero the Atlantic Ocean; and the god Oceanus, son of Uranus and Ge, husband of Tethys and father of the river gods, as in Accius.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant ocean, sea.^(Stelten 1995) [[en|ocean]] came through Old French ''occean'' about 1300.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 170–c. 90 BC – Accius uses it of the god.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of the Atlantic.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1300 – English ''ocean'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The [[m|en|ocean]] surrounding the lands; the [[m|en|atlantic|alt=Atlantic]].^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # ''(mythology)'' The god Oceanus.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[mare]]

+ * [[en|ocean]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}