Oceanus的词源

英文词源

ocean

ocean: [13] In Greek mythology, ōkeanós was a great river or sea that completely encircled the world. This was personified as Ōkeanós, a Titan who was god of this outer sea. The name passed into English via Latin ōceanus and Old French occean, and to begin with was used only for this mythical sea, or for the whole body of water surrounding the Eurasian landmass, with which it was identified. Not until the end of the 14th century did it begin to be applied to large inpidual sections of the Earth’s seas.

Indian Ocean

first attested 1515 in Modern Latin (Oceanus Orientalis Indicus), named for India, which projects into it; earlier it was the Eastern Ocean, as opposed to the Western Ocean (Atlantic) before the Pacific was surmised.

North Sea

Old English norðsæ, usually meaning "the Bristol Channel." The application to the body of water presently so named (late 13c.) is from Dutch (Noordzee, Middle Dutch Noortzee); it lies to the north of Holland, where it was contrasted with the inland Zuider Zee, literally "Southern Sea"). To the Danes, it sometimes was Vesterhavet "West Sea." In English, this had been typically called the "German Sea" or "German Ocean," which follows the Roman name for it, Oceanus Germanicus. "German" persisted on some British maps at least into the 1830s.

ocean (n.)

late 13c., from Old French occean "ocean" (12c., Modern French océan), from Latin oceanus, from Greek okeanos, the great river or sea surrounding the disk of the Earth (as opposed to the Mediterranean), of unknown origin. Personified as Oceanus, son of Uranus and Gaia and husband of Tethys. In early times, when the only known land masses were Eurasia and Africa, the ocean was an endless river that flowed around them. Until c. 1650, commonly ocean sea, translating Latin mare oceanum. Application to inpidual bodies of water began 14c.; there are usually reckoned to be five of them, but this is arbitrary; also occasionally applied to smaller subpisions, such as German Ocean "North Sea."

Protean (adj.)

1590s, from Greek Proteus, sea god (son of Oceanus and Tethys) who could change his form; his name is literally "first," from protos "first" (see proto-).

Tethys

name for the sea that anciently lay between Eurasia and Africa-Arabia, coined 1893 by German geologist Eduard Suess (1831-1914), from Tethys, name of a Greek sea goddess, sister and consort of Oceanus.

中文词源

Oceanus：希腊神话中的大洋河神俄刻阿诺斯

大洋河神俄刻阿诺斯（Oceanus）希腊神话中的一个泰坦巨神，大洋河的河神。所谓大洋河是希腊人想象中环绕整个大地的巨大河流，代表了世界上的全部海域。

大洋河神俄刻阿诺斯是第二代神，为大地女神盖亚与天神乌拉诺斯的儿子，第二代神王克洛诺斯的各个。俄刻阿诺斯和他妻子忒堤斯一个生下了3000个儿子和3000个女儿，这就是世界各地的河神与大洋神女。

由大洋河神俄刻阿诺斯的名字产生了表示“海洋”的单词ocean。

ocean：['əuʃən]n.海洋

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