English Explanatory Dictionary

Ocean of Storms

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A basin on the near side of the Moon.

Word forms

Ocean of Storms the Ocean of Storms

Etymology

Calque of Latin Oceanus Procellarum (literally “Ocean of Storms”), from Latin oceanus (“ocean”) + procella (“storm”). Coined by Italian Jesuit astronomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli, by labelling a map created by Italian Jesuit optician Francesco Maria Grimaldi, and then published in 1651 in the Almagestum Novum.

Synonyms

Sea of Storms mul:Mare Procellarum mul:Oceanus Procellarum
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