Tag: Okeanos
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ocean
Fast Mash Ocean enters English via Anglo-Norman from Old French occean ca. late 12th-c. Old French occean comes from Latin, ōceanus, from Ancient Greek Ὠκεανὸς (Ōkeanὸs) Ōkeanὸs referred to a great river circling the earth which fed all other rivers; geographic discoveries later narrowed it to remote waters and far boundaries of the west (Atlantic) Ōkeanὸs was also a primeval, life-giving god, son of Uranus…
