ὠκεανός

See also: ωκεανός, Ωκεανός, and Ὠκεανός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Ὠκεανός (Ōkeanós).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɔː.ke.a.nós/ → /o.ce.aˈnos/ → /o.ce.aˈnos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɔː.ke.a.nós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /o.ke.aˈnos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /o.ce.aˈnos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /o.ce.aˈnos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /o.ce.aˈnos/

Noun

ὠκεᾰνός • (ōkeanós) m (genitive ὠκεᾰνοῦ); second declension

1. ocean

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ὠκεᾰνός; τοῦ ὠκεᾰνοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὠκεᾰνός ho ōkeanós	τὼ ὠκεᾰνώ tṑ ōkeanṓ	οἱ ὠκεᾰνοί hoi ōkeanoí
Genitive	τοῦ ὠκεᾰνοῦ toû ōkeanoû	τοῖν ὠκεᾰνοῖν toîn ōkeanoîn	τῶν ὠκεᾰνῶν tôn ōkeanôn
Dative	τῷ ὠκεᾰνῷ tôi ōkeanôi	τοῖν ὠκεᾰνοῖν toîn ōkeanoîn	τοῖς ὠκεᾰνοῖς toîs ōkeanoîs
Accusative	τὸν ὠκεᾰνόν tòn ōkeanón	τὼ ὠκεᾰνώ tṑ ōkeanṓ	τοὺς ὠκεᾰνούς toùs ōkeanoús
Vocative	ὠκεᾰνέ ōkeané	ὠκεᾰνώ ōkeanṓ	ὠκεᾰνοί ōkeanoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Arabic: أوقيانوس (ʾūqyānūs)
  • Ottoman Turkish: اقیانوس (okyanus)
    • Turkish: okyanus
  • Persian: اقیانوس (oqyânus)
    • Tajik: уқёнус (uqyonus)
• Aramaic:
  • Aramaic: אוקינוס
  • Classical Syriac: ܐܘܩܝܢܘܣ (ʾōqēyannōs)
• Armenian:
  • Old Armenian: ովկիանոս (ovkianos), ուկեանոս (ukeanos)
    • Armenian: օվկիանոս (ōvkianos)
• → German: Ozean
• Greek: ωκεανός (okeanós)
• → Hebrew: אוקיינוס (okyanus)
• → Latin: oceanus
  • → Basque: ozeano
  • Catalan: oceà
  • → Dutch: oceaan
  • → English: ocean
  • French: océan
  • Friulian: ocean
  • → Galician: océano
  • → German: Ozean
  • → Old Irish: océn
    • Irish: aigéan
    • Scottish Gaelic: aigeann
  • Italian: oceano
  • Occitan: ocean
  • Piedmontese: ocean
  • → Portuguese: oceano
  • Romanian: ocean
  • Sicilian: ucèanu
  • Spanish: océano
  • → Welsh: eigion
• → Russian: океа́н m (okeán)

Further reading

• “ὠκεανός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press