Oceanus Britannicus

From Medieval Latin ōceanus (“large body of water; ocean”) +‎ Britannicus (“British”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [oːˈke.a.nʊs brɪˈtan.nɪ.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [oˈt͡ʃɛː.a.nus briˈt̪an.ni.kus]

Ōceanus Britannicus m sg (genitive Ōceanī Britannicī); second declension

1. The English Channel
   • c. 43 CE, Pomponius Mela, A Description of the World 1.15.1:

     Eurōpa terminōs habet ab oriente Tanain et Maeōtida et Pontum, ā merīdiē reliqua Nostrī Maris, ab occidente Atlanticum, ā septentriōne Britannicum Ōceanum.

     Europe has boundaries: to the east, the Don and Sea of Azov and Black Sea; to the south, the remaining parts of the Mediterranean; to the west, the Atlantic; to the north, the British Ocean.

   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.206.3:

     Etiam nunc in Britannicō Ōceanō vītilēs coriō circumsūtae fīunt, in Nīlō ex papȳrō ac scirpō et harundine.

     Even now, in the British Ocean, they are made of wicker covered with leather; on the Nile, from papyrus and rush and reed.

Second-declension noun with a second-declension adjective, singular only.

• Guilielmo Blaeuw (1622) Europa recens descripta [A recent description of Europe] (in Latin).