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Latin
Pronunciation
(Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈma.re ˈnos.trum/,
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 willingly to the Mediterranean and the Egyptian coast
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem) with a second-declension adjective, singular only.
Synonyms
Spanish
Proper noun
Mare Nostrum m
- Mediterranean; Mediterranean Sea
- Synonyms: mar Mediterráneo, Mediterráneo