θαλάσσης (thalasses)

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

Found 893 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.114: ὅσσαι ὑπʼ εἰρεσίῃσιν ἐπειρήσαντο θαλάσσης.

Pausanias, Description of Greece 2.1.9: … αῖδες, ὅτι δὴ σωτῆρες καὶ οὗτοι νεῶν καὶ ἀνθρώπων εἰσὶ ναυτιλλομένων. τὰ δὲ ἄλλα ἀνάκειται Γαλήνης ἄγαλμα καὶ Θαλάσσης καὶ ἵππος εἰκασμένος κήτει τὰ μετὰ τὸ στέρνον, Ἰνώ τε καὶ Βελλεροφόντης καὶ ὁ ἵππος ὁ Πήγασος.

Procopius, De Bellis 7.10.11: καὶ παρὰ πολὺ ἡσσηθέντες τῇ μάχῃ ἐς τὸ τῆς θαλασσης ὕδωρ οἱ πολλοὶ ἔφυγον, ἵνα δὴ ἑβδομηκοντα καὶ ἑκατὸν ἀποβαλόντες ἐς τὸ φρούριον οἱ λοιποὶ ἀνεχώρησαν.

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.