Mare Tranquillitatis

See also: Mare tranquillitatis

Translingual

Etymology

Mare +‎ Latin tranquillitātis. From Latin Mare Tranquilitātis (spelled with one "L"). From Latin mare+tranquillitās (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

References

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

Further reading

Latin

Proper noun

Mare Tranquillitātis n sg (genitive Maris Tranquillitātis); third declension

  1. alternative form of Mare tranquillitatis
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