θάλασσαν (thalassan)

θάλασσαν is an Ancient Greek form of θάλασσα, meaning “sea”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 1,028 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.1625: ἦρι δʼ ἔπειτʼ ἀγκῶνά θʼ ὁμοῦ μυχάτην τε θάλασσαν

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.102.4: … α περιρρέοντος τοῦ Στρυμόνος [διὰ τὸ περιέχειν αὐτὴν] τείχει μακρῷ ἀπολαβὼν ἐκ ποταμοῦ ἐς ποταμὸν περιφανῆ ἐς θάλασσάν τε καὶ τὴν ἤπειρον ᾤκισεν.

New Testament, Hebrews 11.29: Πίστει διέβησαν τὴν Ἐρυθρὰν Θάλασσαν ὡς διὰ ξηρᾶς γῆς, ἧς πεῖραν λαβόντες οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι κατεπόθησαν.

All forms of θάλασσα (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.