occean Atlantyke
Middle English
Etymology
Calque of Latin ōceanus Ā̆tlanticus.
Proper noun
- 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.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Synonyms
Descendants
- English: Atlantic Ocean
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