英语词汇ocean的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

ocean. Ocean came into English later than sea, being first re- corded in about 1290. The word ultimately comes from a Greek expression meaning “the great stream or river,” which became the Latin oceanus. The Greeks personified this water encom- passing the disk of the earth as Oceanus, “the god of the great primeval water.” In early times, when only the eastern hemi- sphere was known, the ocean was “the Great Outer Sea of boundless extent everywhere surrounding the land, as opposed to inland sea.”

词汇	ocean
词源	ocean. Ocean came into English later than sea, being first re- corded in about 1290. The word ultimately comes from a Greek expression meaning “the great stream or river,” which became the Latin oceanus. The Greeks personified this water encom- passing the disk of the earth as Oceanus, “the god of the great primeval water.” In early times, when only the eastern hemi- sphere was known, the ocean was “the Great Outer Sea of boundless extent everywhere surrounding the land, as opposed to inland sea.”
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