Etymology

thalasso-

Today it means: sea Full definition →

Ancient Greek θάλασσα
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Ancient Greek · learned borrowing fromθάλασσα
  2. Ancient Greek · learned borrowing fromθάλασσα
  3. English todaythalasso-

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek θάλασσα (thálassa, “sea”).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekθάλασσα all →

thalassemiathalassic

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.