Oceanus

Oceanus

1. (planetology) A large mare region on the Moon.

• Oceanus Procellarum

• Okeanos

From Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός (Ōkeanós). Doublet of ocean.

• IPA^(key): /oʊˈsiːənəs/

Oceanus

1. (Greek mythology) Personification 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.

• Ōcianus (Old Latin)

From Ancient Greek Ὠκεᾰνός (Ōkeanós).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /oːˈke.a.nus/, [oːˈkeänʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /oˈt͡ʃe.a.nus/, [oˈt͡ʃɛːänus]

Ōceanus m (genitive Ōceanī); second declension

1. Ocean (that surrounds all the land, personified as a deity)

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Ōceanus
Genitive	Ōceanī
Dative	Ōceanō
Accusative	Ōceanum
Ablative	Ōceanō
Vocative	Ōceane

• Ōceanēnsis
• Ōceaneolus
• Ōceanītis

• French: Océan
• Italian: Oceano
• Portuguese: Oceano
• Sicilian: Ucìanu

• “Oceanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Oceanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Oceanus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.