The story
- Latin · derived frommare“sea”
- Norwegian · derived fromkraken
- English todayKraken Mare
Approved by the IAU 11 April 2008, Kraken (“a sea monster from Norse mythology”) + mare (“a large expanse of liquid hydrocarbons”), from Norwegian kraken + Latin mare (“sea”).
Words from the same roots
Norwegiankraken all →
kraken
Latinmare all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.