occean of Athlant
Middle English
editEtymology
editCalque of Latin ōceanus Ā̆tlanticus.
Proper noun
edit- Atlantic Ocean
- (a. 1387), 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, page 53:
- Thanne þe grete see of myddel erþe bygynneþ in þe west at Hercules pilers; þere þe see of occean of Athlant [translating oceanus Atlanticus] brekeþ out, and makeþ the see Gaditan.
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