Etymograph

English

Oceanid

Oceanid comes from Latin Oceanis ‘an Oceanid’, and goes back to Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός.

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEὨκεανός1
  2. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEὨκεανίς1Ōkeanís
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEOceanis1‘an Oceanid’
  4. EnglishtodayOceanid1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English Oceanid

Lineage

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEὨκεανόςWiktionary, English Oceanid
  2. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEὨκεανίςWiktionary, English OceanidŌkeanís
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEOceanisWiktionary, English Oceanid‘an Oceanid’
  4. EnglishtodayOceanidWiktionary, English Oceanid

Equivalent to Oceanus + -id

Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός

English Oceanus

The story

Borrowed from Latin Oceanis, from Ancient Greek Ὠκεανίς (Ōkeanís), from Ὠκεανός (Ōkeanós) + -ις (-is), literally “sprung of Oceanus”.

Full etymology on Wiktionary

Every English word from Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός

Today it means

noun Any of the daughters of Oceanus and Tethys; a sea-nymph.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “Oceanid”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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