mediterraneus

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LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

medius (“middle”) +‎ terra (“land”) +‎ -āneus

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /me.di.terˈraː.ne.us/, [mɛ.dɪ.tɛrˈraː.ne.ʊs]

AdjectiveEdit

mediterrāneus (feminine mediterrānea, neuter mediterrāneum); first/second declension

1. inland (remote from the coast)

InflectionEdit

First/second declension.

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

• maritimus

Derived termsEdit

• mediterrāneum
• Mediterrāneum mare

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 Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • 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