θάλασσα

• σᾰ́λᾰσσᾰ (sálassa) — Laconian
• θᾰ́λᾰθθᾰ (thálaththa) — Cretan
• θᾰ́λᾰττᾰ (thálatta) — Attic, later

According to Beekes, a Pre-Greek substrate borrowing tentatively reconstructed as *talak^ya;^[1][2] the element "-σσ-", as well as the local geographic meaning, points to a Pre-Greek origin. Compare the possible cognate Luwian 𒀀𒆷𒀸𒊭𒄠𒈪𒅖 (/⁠alassammis⁠/).

Older theories related the word to ἅλς (háls, “salt”), cf. Latin sāl (“salt”), salum (“sea”), Salacia (“sea goddess”).

θᾰ́λᾰσσᾰ • (thálassa) f (genitive θᾰλᾰ́σσης); first declension

1. sea

   Synonyms: πέλαγος (pélagos), πόντος (póntos)

2. the Mediterranean Sea
3. channel
4. salt water

• Albanian: tallaz
• → Coptic: ⲑⲁⲗⲁⲥⲥⲁ (thalassa), ϩⲁⲗⲁⲥⲥⲁ (halassa)
• → English: thalasso-, Thalassa
• Greek:
  • Modern Greek: θάλασσα (thálassa)
  • Mariupol Greek: тъа́ласа (θálasa)
  • Tsakonian: θάσσα (thássa)
• → Latin: Thalassa
• → Romani: talaso
• → Ottoman Turkish: طالاز (talaz), طلاس (talas), تالاز (talaz)
  • → Romanian: talaz
  • → Serbo-Croatian: tȁlās / та̏ла̄с

• “θάλασσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θάλασσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “θάλασσα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• θάλασσα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• θάλασσα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “θάλασσα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G2281 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• θάλασσα in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • atlantic (sea) idem, page 49.
  • brine idem, page 99.
  • deep idem, page 203.
  • sea idem, page 744.
  • water idem, page 967.

From Ancient Greek θάλασσα (thálassa). Cognate with Tsakonian θάσσα (thássa, “sea”), Mariupol Greek тъа́ласа (θálasa).

• IPA^(key):

θάλασσα • (thálassa) f (plural θάλασσες)

1. sea

   Βαλτική Θάλασσα, Μεσόγειος Θάλασσα ― Valtikí Thálassa, Mesógeios Thálassa ― Baltic Sea, Mediterranean Sea

2. sea (all the seas and oceans)

   Πήγε στη θάλασσα.

   Píge sti thálassa.

   He went to sea.

3. storm

   πολύ θάλασσα ― polý thálassa ― heavy seas, stormy weather

• ωκεανός m (okeanós, “ocean”) (e.g. Atlantic, Pacific)
• θάλασσα f (thálassa, “larger sea”) (e.g. Mediterranean, Baltic, Caribbean)
• πέλαγος n (pélagos, “smaller sea”) (e.g. Adriatic, Aegean, Ionian)

• θάλασσα, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
• θάλασσα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el