Ocean of Storms

== English == === Etymology === Calque of Latin Oceanus Procellarum (literally “Ocean of Storms”), from Latin oceanus (“ocean”) + procella (“storm”). 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. === Proper noun === the Ocean of Storms (planetology) A basin on the near side of the Moon. Synonyms: Sea of Storms, Mare Procellarum, Oceanus Procellarum ==== Translations ==== === References ===