archipelago

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  1. noun A large group of islands: the Philippine archipelago.
  2. noun A sea, such as the Aegean, containing a large number of scattered islands.

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  1. Italian Arcipelago, the Aegean Sea, alteration (influenced by arci-, chief, archi-) of Medieval Latin Ēgēopelagus : Latin Aegaeus, Ēgēus, Aegean (from Greek Aigaios) + Latin pelagus, sea (from Greek pelagos; see plāk-1 in Indo-European roots).

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  1. Early modern English archpelago, also archipelage and archipelagus (and abbreviation archipel = D. G. archipel, from French archipel = Provencal archipel; cf. early modern F. archipelague) = Old Spanish arcipielago, Spanish archipielago = OPg. arcepelago, Portuguese archipelago (cf. Danish arkipelag, arkipelagus, Russian arkhipelagŭ, New Greek ἀρχιπέλαγος, Middle Latin archipelagus), from Italian arcipelago, orig. the Ægean sea, literally the chief gulf or sea (in distinction from minor bodies of water to which the term pelago, Middle Latin pelagus, was applied), from arci- (L., etc., archi-), chief, principal, + pelago (= Spanish piélago = Portuguese pelago, pego = Provencal peleg), gulf, abyss, pool, sea, from Middle Latin L. pelagus, from Greek πέλαγος, sea: see pelagic.
 

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