Mare Nostrum
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Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit](Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈma.re ˈnos.trum/, [ˈmärɛ ˈnɔs̠t̪rʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈma.re ˈnos.trum/, [ˈmäːre ˈnɔst̪rum]
Proper noun
[edit]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 [some having come] willingly to the Mediterranean and the Egyptian coast […]
- 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, vi, 47 (alt. 32):
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem) with a second-declension adjective, singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | Mare Nostrum |
Genitive | Maris Nostrī |
Dative | Marī Nostrō |
Accusative | Mare Nostrum |
Ablative | Marī Nostrō |
Vocative | Mare Nostrum |
Synonyms
[edit]- Mare Magnum
- Mare Internum
- Mare Mediterrāneum (Late Latin)
Spanish
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Mare Nostrum m
- Mediterranean; Mediterranean Sea
- Synonyms: mar Mediterráneo, Mediterráneo