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Latin
Etymology
mare + tranquillitātis. From Mare Tranquilitatis (spelled with one L). 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.[1]
Proper noun
Mare tranquillitātis n sg (genitive Maris tranquillitātis); third declension
- (planetology) Sea of Tranquility (a basin in Nearside, Moon, Earth, Solar System)
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