mediterraneus
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
medius (“middle”) + terra (“land”) + -āneus
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /me.di.terˈraː.ne.us/, [mɛ.d̪ɪ.t̪ɛrˈraː.ne.ʊs]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /me.di.terˈra.ne.us/, [mɛ.d̪i.t̪ɛrˈraː.nɛ.us]
AdjectiveEdit
mediterrāneus (feminine mediterrānea, neuter mediterrāneum); first/second-declension adjective
- inland (remote from the coast)
DeclensionEdit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | mediterrāneus | mediterrānea | mediterrāneum | mediterrāneī | mediterrāneae | mediterrānea | |
| Genitive | mediterrāneī | mediterrāneae | mediterrāneī | mediterrāneōrum | mediterrāneārum | mediterrāneōrum | |
| Dative | mediterrāneō | mediterrāneō | mediterrāneīs | ||||
| Accusative | mediterrāneum | mediterrāneam | mediterrāneum | mediterrāneōs | mediterrāneās | mediterrānea | |
| Ablative | mediterrāneō | mediterrāneā | mediterrāneō | mediterrāneīs | |||
| Vocative | mediterrānee | mediterrānea | mediterrāneum | mediterrāneī | mediterrāneae | mediterrānea | |
AntonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Asturian: mediterraneu
- Catalan: mediterrani
- Corsican: meditarraniu, Mari Tarraniu
- English: Mediterranean
- French: méditerrané
- Galician: mediterráneo
- Italian: mediterraneo
- Maltese: Mediterran
- Occitan: mediterrani
- Old French: mer moiterienne
- Portuguese: mediterrâneo
- Romanian: mediteran, mediteranean
- Spanish: mediterráneo
- Sicilian: miditirràniu
ReferencesEdit
- mediterraneus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mediterraneus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mediterraneus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- an inland region; the interior: terra (regio) mediterranea
- an inland region; the interior: terra (regio) mediterranea
- mediterraneus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016