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Headword:
Ôkeanos
Adler number: omega,43
Translated headword: Okeanos, Ocean
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the sea in a circle around all the earth.
From the [verb] ke/w, I split, [comes] keano/s, and with the alpha privative and a change of alpha to omega [it becomes] w)keano/s; "out of 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:
Similar material, variously, in other lexica and grammars.
See generally LSJ s.v. (web address 1); OCD(4) p.1030; and
omega 44.
[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.
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