maritime
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From Middle French maritime
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maritime (comparative more maritime, superlative most maritime)
- Related to the sea or sailing
- I enjoy maritime activities such as yachting and deep sea diving.
- Bordering on the sea
- the maritime states.
- Living near or in the sea
- maritime animals.
- Of or relating to a mariner or sailor
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[edit] French
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From Latin maritimus (“of the sea”), from Latin mare (“sea”).
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maritime (epicene, plural maritimes)
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maritime
- vocative masculine singular of maritimus
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maritime m. and f. (plural maritimes)
- maritime (bordering the sea)
- 1587, François de La Noue, F. E. Sutcliffe, Discours politiques et militaires ...:Nouvellement recueillis & mis en lumiere, page 829-830:
- Ceste-ci n'est pas si grande ni si plaisante que l'autre : elle a pourtant d'autres choses qui recompensent bien ces defauts, dont la principale est la situatió maritime.
- 1587, François de La Noue, F. E. Sutcliffe, Discours politiques et militaires ...:Nouvellement recueillis & mis en lumiere, page 829-830:
[edit] Swedish
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maritime
- absolute definite natural masculine form of maritim.