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Everywhen 鈥渁t all times, always鈥� usually appears in the phrase 鈥渆verywhere and everywhen.鈥� The word dates from the mid-17th century, but it has never really caught on.

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English ansa comes via French anse 鈥渉andle鈥� from Latin 腻苍蝉补 鈥渉andle (of a cup, a door), a loop, an opening, an opportunity.鈥� As a term in art history or archaeology, ansa means 鈥渁n incised, decorated handle of a vase.鈥� The astronomical sense 鈥渙ne of the apparent extremities of the rings of Saturn or other celestial bodies鈥� is a New Latin sense dating from the 17th century. Latin 腻苍蝉补聽is akin to Old Prussian ansis 鈥渉ook, kettle-hook鈥� and Lithuanian 膮蝉脿 鈥減ot handle.鈥�

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Thalassic 鈥減ertaining to seas or oceans, growing or found in the sea鈥� is a relatively rare technical term used in oceanography, usually applied to bodies of salt water such as gulfs or bays that are smaller than oceans. The adjective comes ultimately from the Greek noun 迟丑谩濒补蝉蝉补, 迟丑谩濒补迟迟补 鈥渟ea, the sea, the Mediterranean Sea.鈥� 罢丑谩濒补蝉蝉补 has no reliable etymology but is from the same pre-Greek language that gave Greek an alternative form to 迟丑谩濒补蝉蝉补, 迟丑谩濒补迟迟补, namely, 诲补濒谩苍办丑补, recorded only once, in a dictionary of the 5th century a.d.

Early in 鈥淭elemachus,鈥� the first chapter of Ulysses, the irrepressible Malachi 鈥淏uck鈥� Mulligan tries to convert a sullen Stephen Dedalus from Catholicism to Hellenism: 鈥淎h, Dedalus, the Greeks鈥�. You must read them in the original. Thalatta! Thalatta!鈥� But Buck鈥檚 Hellenism is as shallow as everything else about him: he would have seen thalatta thalatta in his second or third semester of high school Greek in Book 4, Chapter 7 of the Anabasis of Xenophon, whose works were much read as school texts because of the simplicity of his style. The word thalassic entered English in the mid-18th century.