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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin mediterrāneus, from medius (“middle”) + terra (“earth, land”) + -āneus (adjectival suffix).
Pronunciation
Adjective
Mediterranean (comparative more Mediterranean, superlative most Mediterranean)
- Of or pertaining to the Mediterranean Sea and the region around it.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Of or pertaining to the Mediterranean Sea and the region around it
- Armenian: միջերկրական (hy) (miǰerkrakan)
- Asturian: mediterraneu
- Belarusian: міжземнаморскі (mižzjemnamórski)
- Catalan: mediterrani (ca)
- Czech: středozemní, středomořský (cs)
- Dutch: mediterraan (nl)
- Esperanto: mediteranea
- Finnish: välimerellinen (fi), Välimeren
- French: méditerranéen (fr)
- Galician: mediterráneo (gl)
- Georgian: ხმელთაშუაზღვისპირა (xmeltašuazɣvisṗira), ხმელთაშუა ზღვის (xmeltašua zɣvis), ხმელთაშუა (xmeltašua)
- German: mediterran (de)
- Greek: μεσογειακός (el) (mesogeiakós)
- Hebrew: ים תיכוני (yám-tikhoní)
- Hungarian: mediterrán (hu)
- Irish: Meánmhara, Meánmhuirí
- Italian: mediterraneo (it)
- Latin: mediterraneus
- Macedonian: средоземен (sredozemen), средоземноморски (sredozemnomorski), медитера́нски (mediteránski)
- Malay: mediteranean
- Maltese: Mediterran
- Occitan: mediterranèu (oc)
- Persian: مدیترانهای (meditarâne-'i)
- Polish: śródziemnomorski (pl)
- Portuguese: mediterrânico, mediterrâneo (pt)
- Romanian: mediteranean (ro), mediteran
- Russian: средиземноморский (ru) (sredizemnomorskij), средиземный (ru) (sredizemnyj)
- Serbo-Croatian: mediteran
- Sicilian: miditirraniu
- Spanish: mediterráneo (es)
- Swedish: medelhavs- (sv), mediterran (sv)
- Ukrainian: середземномо́рський (seredzemnomórsʹkyj)
- Vietnamese: Địa Trung Hải (vi)
- Volapük: Zänodamelik
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Proper noun
the Mediterranean
- Ellipsis of Mediterranean Sea; a sea between Europe and Africa, an inland branch of the Atlantic.
- A region of Southern Europe and North Africa and Western Asia. The region surrounding the Mediterranean Sea.
Derived terms
Translations
region surrounding the Mediterranean Sea
Noun
Mediterranean (plural Mediterraneans)
- Synonym of Mediterranid