Does the word pacifier have anything to do with the naming of the pacific ocean?

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Does the word pacifier have anything to do with the naming of the pacific ocean?
Yes. When Balboa first looked westward form Panama over the ocean he saw it on a calm day and so named it the Pacifico, the Spanish word for peaceful. In English we just dropped the 'o.' The Spanish wrod Pacifico and the English word Pacifier both come from Latin.


(Modern Spanish, by the way, is closer to Latin than is modern Italian, especially as spkonen in the South American Andes.)
Reply:Yes.





pacific-1548, "tending to make peace," from M.Fr. pacifique, from L. pacificus "peaceful, peace-making," from pax (gen. pacis) "peace" + root of facere "to make" (see factitious). Meaning "peaceful, calm" is first recorded 1633. The Pacific Ocean (1660) is from M.L. Pacificum, neut. of L. pacificus, so called c.1500 by Magellan when he sailed into it and found it calmer than the stormy Atlantic.





pacify-1460, from M.Fr. pacifier, from O.Fr., "make peace," from L. pacificare "to make peace, pacify," from pacificus (see pacific). Pacifier "one who pacifies or appeases" is first recorded 1533; the meaning "nipple-shaped device for babies" is first recorded 1904.
Reply:both words come from the same Latin root. The Pacific Ocean was so named because, in the early days of sea travel and exploration, it was considered a much calmer ocean than the Atlantic or Indian Oceans
Reply:Pacifist=serene
Reply:Yes they both come from the latin word pax which means peace or calm.