mediterraneus

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /me.di.terˈraː.ne.us/, [mɛd̪ɪt̪ɛrˈräːneʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /me.di.terˈra.ne.us/, [med̪it̪erˈräːneus]

Adjective

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

1. inland (remote from the coast)

   Antonym: maritimus

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

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

Derived terms

• mediterrāneum
• Mare Mediterrāneum

Descendants

• Old French: mer moiterienne
• → Asturian: mediterraneu
• → Catalan: mediterrani
• → Corsican: meditarraniu, Mari Tarraniu
• → English: Mediterranean
• → French: méditerrané
• → Galician: mediterráneo
• → German: mediterran
• → Italian: mediterraneo
• → Maltese: Mediterran
• → Occitan: mediterrani
• → Portuguese: mediterrâneo
• → Romanian: mediteran, mediteranean
• → Spanish: mediterráneo
• → Sicilian: miditirraniu

References

• “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 Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• 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 (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016