Mediterranean

English

Etymology

From Latin Mediterraneanus, from medius (“middle”), + terra (“earth, land”) + -anus (adjectival suffix) + -eanus (adjectival suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /mɛdɨtɚˈeɪniən/

Adjective

Mediterranean (comparative more Mediterranean, superlative most Mediterranean)

1. Of or pertaining to the Mediterranean Sea and the region around it.

Derived terms

terms derived from Mediterranean (adjective)

familial Mediterranean fever Mediterranean anaemia, Mediterranean anemia Mediterranean anchovy Mediterranean back Mediterranean Basin Mediterranean climate Mediterranean coast fever Mediterranean cypress Mediterranean Deep Water Mediterranean diet Mediterranean disease Mediterranean disease Mediterranean eddy Mediterranean erythematous fever Mediterranean exanthematous fever Mediterranean fan palm Mediterranean fever Mediterranean flour moth Mediterranean forest Mediterranean front Mediterranean fruit fly Mediterranean Games Mediterranean gecko Mediterranean gull Mediterranean hackberry Mediterranean-haemoglobin E disease, Mediterranean-hemoglobin E disease

Mediterraneanise, Mediterraneanize Mediterranean house gecko Mediterranean lenses Mediterranean lymphoma Mediterranean monk seal Mediterranean outflow Mediterranean pine Mediterranean race Mediterranean recluse spider Mediterranean region Mediterranean Revival Style architecture Mediterranean Sea Mediterranean shearwater Mediterranean snapdragon Mediterranean spearfish Mediterranean spotted fever Mediterranean Squadron Mediterranean States Mediterranean Station Mediterranean Theater of Operations Mediterranean theileriosis Mediterranean tropical cyclone Mediterranean water Mediterranean water shrew Mediterranean wood Protomediterranean

Related terms

• medium
• middle
• Middle-earth
• Middle Earth
• terra
• Terran
• terrestrial

Translations

Of or pertaining to the Mediterranean Sea and the region around it

• Armenian: միջերկրական (hy) (miǰerkrakan) 
• Asturian: mediterraneu (ast)
• Catalan: mediterrani (ca)
• Czech: středozemní (cs)
• Dutch: mediterraan (nl)
• Esperanto: mediteranea (eo)
• Finnish: välimerellinen (fi); Välimeren (fi) (genitive of proper noun)
• French: méditerranéen (fr)
• Galician: mediterráneo (gl)
• German: mediterran (de)
• Greek: μεσογειακός (el) (mesogeiakós) 
• Hebrew: ים תיכוני (he) (yám-tikhoní)
• Italian: mediterraneo (it)

• Macedonian: средоземен (mk) (sredózemen), средоземноморски (mk) (sredozemnomórski), медитерански (mk) (mediteránski)
• Malay: mediteranean (ms)
• Maltese: Mediterran (mt) m
• Polish: śródziemnomorski (pl)
• Portuguese: mediterrânico (pt), mediterrâneo (pt)
• Romanian: mediteranean (ro)
• Russian: средиземноморский (ru) (sredizemnomorskij), средиземный (ru) (sredizemnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: mediteran (sh)
• Spanish: mediterráneo (es)
• Swedish: medelhavs (sv)-
• Volapük: Zänodamelik (vo)

Proper noun

Mediterranean

1. The Mediterranean Sea.
2. The region surrounding the Mediterranean Sea.

Derived terms

• American Mediterranean
• Battle of the Mediterranean
• Blue Mediterranean
• Key of the Mediterranean
• Red Mediterranean

Translations

Mediterranean Sea — see Mediterranean Sea

region surrounding the Mediterranean Sea

• Czech: Středomoří (cs) n
• Dutch: Middellandse Zee (nl) n
• Finnish: Välimeren alue (fi)

• Greek: Μεσόγειος (el) (Mesógeios) f 
• Macedonian: Медитеран (mk) (Mediterán) m, Средоземје (mk) (Sredózemje) n