Etymology · Ancient Greek
Ὠκεανός
4 English words descend from Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός, most common first.
- oceanOne of the large bodies of water separating the continents.
- OceaniaA continental region composed of the islands of the central and southern Pacific Ocean, principally divided into Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.
- OceanusPersonification of vast waters or the world ocean. He was the first-born of the Titans, son of Uranus and Gaia, the god Ωκεανός Ποταμός (Ōkeanós Potamós, “River Ocean”) that encircled the earth. With his sister-wife, Tethys, he fathered all rivers and the Oceanids.
- OkeanosSynonym of Oceanus (“god and personification of the world ocean”).