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Headword: Ôkeanos
Adler number: omega,43
Translated headword: Okeanos, Ocean
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
The sea in a circle around all the land.
From the [verb] κέω , I split, [comes] κεανός , and with the alpha privative and a change of alpha to omega [it becomes] ὠκεανός ; "from which all rivers and every sea and [all] the streams [flow]."[1]
Greek Original:
Ôkeanos: hê kuklôi pasês tês gês thalassa. para to keô, to schizô, keanos, meta tou sterêtikou a kai tropêi tou a eis ô ôkeanos: ex houper pantes potamoi kai pasa thalassa kai pêgai.
Notes:
See generally LSJ s.v. (web address 1); OCD(3) p.1058.
[1] Homer, Iliad 21.196-7 (web address 2).
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1
Web address 2
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; geography
Translated by: Stacie Raucci on 5 June 2000@12:20:28.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation and notes; added keywords) on 4 May 2001@06:53:10.
Catharine Roth (modified translation, added betacode, fixed link and added another) on 6 September 2006@22:43:31.

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