Uncertain. Some suggest the source isProto-Indo-European*pleh₂-(“flat, broad, plain”), whereas others such as Beekes suggest a non-Indo-European origin.

πέλᾰγος• (pélăgos) n (genitiveπελᾰ́γους);third declension

1. sea

   Synonyms:θάλασσα(thálassa),πόντος(póntos)

• Greek:πέλαγος(pélagos)
• → Albanian:pellg
• → Coptic:ⲡⲉⲗⲁⲅⲟⲥ(pelagos)
• → Latin:pelagus (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Armenian:պեղագոս(pełagos)

• “πέλαγος”, inLiddell & Scott (1889),An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “πέλαγος”, inAutenrieth, Georg (1891),A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πέλαγος inBailly, 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
• πέλαγος inCunliffe, Richard J. (1924),A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published1963
• “πέλαγος”, inSlater, William J. (1969),Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910),English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • abyss idem, page 5.
  • crop idem, page 185.
  • deep idem, page 203.
  • high seas idem, page 399.
  • ocean idem, page 569.
  • open idem, page 574.
  • sea idem, page 744.
  • storm idem, page 821.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010),Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series;10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN

FromAncient Greekπέλαγος(pélagos,“sea”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe.la.ɣos/

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πέλαγος• (pélagos) n (pluralπελάγη)

1. sea(Adriatic, Aegean, Ionian, etc.)

• 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)

• πέλαγο n(pélago)(literary, very colloquial)
• πέλαο n(pélao)(very colloquial)

• Αιγαίο πέλαγος n(Aigaío pélagos)

• → Ladino:pelagos

• πέλαγος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at theCentre for the Greek language
• πέλαγος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia^el

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