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The Pacific Ocean's name come from the Latin word 'Mare Pacificum' meaning?
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The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan who found the ocean saw it as very peaceful, or pacifique, which means peaceful in french. The name stuck, and the word ocean...well figure it out.
Hope I could help!!!:):)
P.S. latin has nothing to do with it!!:):P:D;)
it means "The Sea that makes Peace". which is very similar to what Magellan called it and much more poetic than what Vasco Núñez de Balboa named it when he discovered it.
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How did the name for the Pacific Ocean originate?
The Pacific Ocean from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful sea", bestowed upon it by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan.
List the names of oceans in Latin America?
The Pacific and the Atlantic oceans, that is all.
What two oceans border latin America?
pacific and Atlantic
What is 'pacificus' in English?
Pacific or peace making is the English equivalent of 'pacificus'. The Latin word is the masculine form of the adjective. The feminine and neuter forms are 'pacifica' and pacificum', respectively. The word is the source of the name of the huge ocean that we call the Pacific.
What oceans surround Latin America?
The Caribbean Sea to the North, the Atlantic to the East & the Pacific Ocean to the East.
What causes isolation in latin America?
The fact that it is a large continent separated from the rest of the world by the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the meaning of the word Pacific?
Peaceful. Like "pacifist." From the Latin pax, "peace."----
Why was the Pacific Ocean so called?
The name is derived from the Latin name Tepre Pacificum, 'peaceful sea', bestowed upon it by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan.Pacific means peaceful. Ferdinand Magellan named the Pacific Ocean 'pacific', after passing through the Straits of Magellan and around Cape Horn, because it seemed so calm and peaceful in comparison to the stormy waters he had just sailed through.
What is an Atlantic pomfret?
An Atlantic pomfret is a species of pomfret, a fish of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans, Latin name Brama brama.
What language did the word pacific came from?
Pacific comes from the Latin pax, meaning peace; or pacificus, meaning peaceful or peace-making. From the 1540s Middle French pacfique, it meant tending to make peace.
What are the borders of Latin America?
Latin American is geographic area composed of the following subregions: Those areas of North America south of the U.S. southern border. Central America South America Caribbean
How did the Pacific Ocean receive its name?
The Pacific Ocean was sighted by Europeans early in the 16th century, first by the Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa who crossed the Isthmus of Panama in 1513 and named it Mar del Sur (South Sea). Its current name is however derived from the Luso-Latin macaronic Tepre Pacificum, "peaceful sea", bestowed upon it by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan.
