Mare Nostrum
Latin
FWOTD – 3 March 2019
Pronunciation
(Classical) IPA(key): /ˈma.re ˈnos.trum/, [ˈmärɛ ˈnɔs̠t̪rʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈma.re ˈnos.trum/, [ˈmäːre ˈnɔst̪rum]
Proper noun
Mare Nostrum n sg (genitive Maris Nostrī); third declension
- Mediterranean Sea (a sea), Literally, “Our Sea”
- 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, vi, 47 (alt. 32):
- […] multis gentibus eorum deductis illo a Tigrane Magno, sponte vero ad mare nostrum litusque Aegyptium […]
- […] many of their tribes having been brought to that place by Tigranes the Great, but [some having come] willingly to the Mediterranean and the Egyptian coast […]
- 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, vi, 47 (alt. 32):
Declension
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Synonyms
- Mare Magnum
- Mare Internum
- Mare Mediterrāneum (Late Latin)
Spanish
Proper noun
Mare Nostrum m
- Mediterranean; Mediterranean Sea
- Synonyms: mar Mediterráneo, Mediterráneo
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