Myth & LegendGreek → English
Ocean
A vast body of salt water.
The Greek roots
Ὠκεανός
Ōkeanós
the world-river Oceanus
Literally: “the encircling river”
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The story of the word
Oceanus was the great river the Greeks believed encircled the whole earth — now the name of the seas themselves.
The same roots elsewhere
Other languages reached for exactly the same Greek pieces.
In a sentence
The ocean stretched unbroken to the horizon.