Marine Lexicon

Marine Lexicon

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Marine Lexicon is a cooperation initiative between Portugal and Norway, funded by EEA Grants and CHAM – Centre for the Humanities, aiming at the construction of a thesaurus of European common names of marine mammals (cetaceans, seals and sea lions, and sirenians), symbolic elements (sea monsters, hybrid beings, folklore creatures) represented in the early modern age (15th-18th centuries) and place names related to the exploitation of marine mammals.

For now, a thesaurus with words and expressions from 10 languages, including old versions of the respective languages, will be included in a database; five South European and five North European. All are languages from countries and regions with a coastal line. The thesaurus is presented here, allowing scholars and the public to search within the true ocean of possibilities that is the European vocabulary about marine mammals.

Thesaurus

• Balaena mysticetus
• Balaenoptera acutorostrata
• Balaenoptera borealis
• Balaenoptera edeni
• Balaenoptera musculus
• Balaenoptera physalus
• Cystophora cristata
• Delphinapterus leucas
• Delphinus delphis
• Erignathus barbatus
• Eschrichtius robustus
• Eubalaena glacialis
• Globicephala macrorhynchus
• Globicephala melas
• Grampus griseus
• Halichoerus grypus
• Hyperoodon ampullatus
• Kogia breviceps
• Kogia sima
• Lagenodelphis hosei
• Lagenorhynchus acutus
• Lagenorhynchus albirostris
• Megaptera novaeangliae
• Mesoplodon bidens
• Mesoplodon densirostris
• Mesoplodon europaeus
• Mesoplodon grayi
• Mesoplodon mirus
• Monodon monoceros
• Odobenus rosmarus
• Orcinus orca
• Pagophilus groenlandicus/ Phoca groenlandica
• Peponocephala electra
• Phoca vitulina
• Phocoena phocoena
• Physeter macrocephalus
• Pseudorca crassidens
• Pusa hispida/Phoca hispida
• Seal (generic)
• Stenella coeruleoalbe
• Stenella frontalis
• Steno bredanensis
• Trichechus manatus
• Trichechus senegalensis
• Tursiops truncatus
• Whale (generic)
• Ziphius cavirostris