The Ancient Greek word for sea is
θάλασσα
Translations for sea and their definitions
| θάλασσα | |
| 1. n. sea | |
| 2. n. the Mediterranean Sea | |
| 3. n. channel | |
| 4. n. salt water |
| ἅλς | |
| 1. n. salt (masculine) | |
| 2. n. brine (masculine) | |
| 3. n. sea (feminine) | |
| 4. n. wit |
| πέλαγος | |
| 1. n. sea |
| πόντος | |
| 1. n. the sea, usually the Mediterranean | |
| 2. n. (often combined with epithets in Homer) | |
| αὐτὸς γάρ σφιν δῶκεν ἄναξ ἀνδρῶν Ἀγαμέμνωννῆας ἐϋσσέλμους περάᾱν ἐπὶ οἴνοπα πόντονἈτρεΐδης, ἐπεὶ οὔ σφι θαλάσσια ἔργα μεμήλει. - For Agamemnon son of Atreus himself had given the Arcadiansstron | |
| Φοίνῑκες δ' ἄγον ἄνδρες ἐπ' ἠεροειδέα πόντον, - Phoenician men had brought the mixing bowl over the misty sea | |
| οὐ γάρ πω τέθνηκεν ἐπὶ χθονὶ δῖος Ὀδυσσεύς,ἀλλ' ἔτι που ζωὸς κατερῡ́κεται εὐρέϊ πόντῳ,νήσῳ̆ ἐν ἀμφιρύτῃ, - Athena disguised as Mentes talking to Telemachus:For noble Odysseus hasn't died yet on |
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