Mare Tranquillitatis

Translingual

Etymology

Mare +‎ Latin tranquillitātis. From Latin Mare Tranquilitatis (spelled with one "L"). From Latin mare+tranquillitas (literally “Sea of 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.[1]

Proper noun

Mare Tranquillitatis

  1. (planetology) The Sea of Tranquility: A basin in Nearside, Moon, Earth, Solar System; a lunar mare region.

Translations
Sea of Tranquility — see Sea of Tranquility

References
  1. The Face of the Moon, 7. Riccioli, Giovanni Battista (1598-1671)., Linda Hall Library

Further reading

Latin

Proper noun

Mare Tranquillitatis

  1. Alternative form of Mare tranquillitatis
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