Ancient Greek

Proper noun

Ὠκεᾰνός • ‎(Ōkeanós) m ‎(genitive Ὠκεᾰνοῦ); second declension

1. Oceanus, a Greek water god usually said to be a Titan, one of the sons of Uranus and Gaia.
2. The great freshwater river thought to encompass the world disc.
3. The great saline outer sea (the Atlantic), as opposed to the Mediterranean.

Inflection

Derived terms

• Ὠκεᾰνῐ́ς ‎(Ōkeanís)

Descendants

• English: ocean, Oceanus, Ocean
• Greek: Ωκεανός ‎(Okeanós)
• Latin: Oceanus
• Turkish: Okyanus

References

• Ὠκεανός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Ὠκεανός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Ὠκεανός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Ὠκεανός in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,018

Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /okeanós/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /oceanós/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /oceanós/

Noun

ὠκεανός • ‎(ōkeanós) m ‎(genitive ὠκεανοῦ); second declension

1. ocean

Inflection

Descendants

• Arabic: أوقيانوس ‎(ʾūqyānūs)
  • Ottoman Turkish: اقیانوس ‎(okyanus)
    • Turkish: okyanus
  • Persian: اقیانوس ‎(oqyânus)
    • Tajik: уқёнус ‎(uqyonus)
• Aramaic

  Hebrew: אוקינוס

  Syriac: ܐܘܩܝܢܘܣ ‎(ʾōqēyannōs)

• Armenian:
  • Old Armenian: ովկիանոս ‎(ovkianos), ուկեանոս ‎(ukeanos)
    • Armenian: օվկիանոս ‎(ōvkianos)
• English: ocean
• French: océan
• Greek: ὠκεανός ‎(ὠkeanós)
• Hebrew: אוקיינוס ‎(okyanus)
• Latin: oceanus
• Russian: океа́н m ‎(okeán)

References

• LSJ
• BDAG