occean Atlantyke

Middle English

Etymology

Calque of Latin ōceanus Ā̆tlanticus.

Proper noun

occean Atlantyke

1. Atlantic Ocean
   • ?a. 1475 (?a. 1425), Ranulph Higden, edited by Churchill Babington, Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden Monachi Cestrensis; Together with the English Translations of John Trevisa and of an Unknown Writer of the Fifteenth Century, volume I, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, published 1865, page 53:

     The begynnenge of the grete see is in the weste, at the pyllers of Hercules, where the occean Atlantyke [translating oceanus Atlanticus] brekenge vp to londes makethe the see Gaditan.

     The beginning of the great sea is in the west, at the Pillars of Hercules, where the Atlantic Ocean breaks up so that lands make the Gaditan Sea.

Synonyms

• occean of Athlant

Descendants

• English: Atlantic Ocean