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sea of tranquility

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.02 in modern English

Syllables
sea of -tran-quil-i-ty
IPA
31
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A basin in Nearside, Moon, Earth, Solar System; location of the first manned moon landing, in 1969.

Etymology

Calque of Latin Mare Tranquilitātis (spelled with one L), from Latin mare (“sea”)+tranquilitātis (“tranquility”). Coined by Italian Jesuit astronomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli, by labelling a map created by Italian Jesuit optician Francesco Maria Grimaldi, and then published in 1651 in the Almagestum Novum.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

the Sea of Tranquility (canonical) Sea of Tranquillity (alternative)

Phrases

Tranquility Base

Synonyms

Mare Tranquillitatis

Questions

What does sea of tranquility mean?
A basin in Nearside, Moon, Earth, Solar System; location of the first manned moon landing, in 1969.
Where does sea of tranquility come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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