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/

• Hyphenation: ὠ‧κε‧α‧νός

Noun

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

1. ocean

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ὠκεᾰνός; τοῦ ὠκεᾰνοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὠκεᾰνός ho ōkeănós	τὼ ὠκεᾰνώ tṑ ōkeănṓ	οἱ ὠκεᾰνοί hoi ōkeănoí
Genitive	τοῦ ὠκεᾰνοῦ toû ōkeănoû	τοῖν ὠκεᾰνοῖν toîn ōkeănoîn	τῶν ὠκεᾰνῶν tôn ōkeănôn
Dative	τῷ ὠκεᾰνῷ tōî ōkeănōî	τοῖν ὠκεᾰνοῖν toîn ōkeănoîn	τοῖς ὠκεᾰνοῖς toîs ōkeănoîs
Accusative	τὸν ὠκεᾰνόν tòn ōkeănón	τὼ ὠκεᾰνώ tṑ ōkeănṓ	τοὺς ὠκεᾰνούς toùs ōkeănoús
Vocative	ὠκεᾰνέ ōkeăné	ὠκεᾰνώ ōkeănṓ	ὠκεᾰνοί ōkeănoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Arabic: أُوقْيَانُوس (ʔūqyānūs)
  • Arabic: قَامُوس (qāmūs)
    • → Hausa: ƙamus
    • → Malay: kamus
      • → Indonesian: kamus
    • → Maranao: kamos
    • → Northern Kurdish: qamûs
    • → Ottoman Turkish: قاموس (kamus)
      • Turkish: kamus
    • → Pashto: قاموس (qâmos)
    • → Persian: قاموس (qâmus)
      • Tajik: қомус (qomus)
    • → Somali: qaamuus
    • → Sundanese: kamus
    • → Swahili: kamusi
      • → Kikuyu: kamusi
      • → Luhya: ekamusi
      • → Meru: kamusi
    • → Urdu: قاموس (qāmūs)
    • → Uyghur: قامۇس (qamus)
  • Urdu: اوقیانوس (ūqyânūs)
  • 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)
• → Bulgarian: океа́н m (okeán)
• Coptic: ⲱⲕⲉⲁⲛⲟⲥ (ōkeanos)
• → German: Ozean
• Greek: ωκεανός (okeanós)
• → Hebrew: אוקיינוס (okyanus)
• → Latin: oceanus
  • Catalan: oceà
  • French: océan m
  • Friulian: ocean
  • Italian: oceano
  • Occitan: ocean m
  • Piedmontese: ocean
  • Romanian: ocean n
  • Sicilian: ucèanu
  • Spanish: océano
  • → Basque: ozeano
  • → Dutch: oceaan
  • → English: ocean
  • → Galician: océano
  • → German: Ozean
  • → Old Irish: océn
    • Irish: aigéan
    • Scottish Gaelic: aigeann
  • → Portuguese: oceano
  • → 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