Mare Nostrum
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
(Classical) IPA(key): /ˈma.re ˈnos.trum/, [ˈmärɛ ˈnɔs̠t̪rʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈma.re ˈnos.trum/, [ˈmäːre ˈnɔst̪rum]
Proper noun edit
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 edit
Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem) with a second-declension adjective, singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | Mare Nostrum |
Genitive | Maris Nostrī |
Dative | Marī Nostrō |
Accusative | Mare Nostrum |
Ablative | Marī Nostrō |
Vocative | Mare Nostrum |
Synonyms edit
- Mare Magnum
- Mare Internum
- Mare Mediterrāneum (Late Latin)
Spanish edit
Proper noun edit
Mare Nostrum m
- Mediterranean; Mediterranean Sea
- Synonyms: mar Mediterráneo, Mediterráneo