Mediterranean

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mediterrāneus "inland", from medius (“middle”) + terra (“earth, land”) + -āneus (adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌmɛdɪtəˈɹeɪnɪən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌmɛdɪtəˈɹeɪnɪən/, [mɛɾəɾəˈɹeɪnɪən], [mɛdɪtəˈɹeɪnjən]

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Adjective

Mediterranean (comparative more Mediterranean, superlative most Mediterranean)

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

Derived terms

• familial Mediterranean fever
• medicane
• Mediterranean anchovy
• Mediterranean anemia
• Mediterranean back
• Mediterranean Basin
• Mediterranean blue
• Mediterranean climate
• Mediterranean coast fever
• Mediterranean cypress
• Mediterranean Deep Water
• Mediterranean diet
• 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-hemoglobin E disease
• Mediterranean house gecko
• Mediterranean Irish
• Mediterranean Irishman
• Mediterraneanise
• Mediterraneanize
• Mediterranean lenses
• Mediterranean lingua franca
• Mediterranean lymphoma
• Mediterranean monk seal
• Mediterraneanness
• 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 triad
• Mediterranean tropical cyclone
• Mediterranean water
• Mediterranean water shrew
• Mediterranean wood
• Protomediterranean
• submediterranean
• sub-Mediterranean

Related terms

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

Translations

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

• Albanian: mesdhetar (sq)
• 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)
• Hindi: भूमध्य (bhūmadhya)
• 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
• Yiddish: מיטלענדיש (mitlendish)

Proper noun

the Mediterranean

1. Ellipsis of Mediterranean Sea; a sea between Europe and Africa, an inland branch of the Atlantic.
2. A region of Southern Europe and North Africa and Western Asia. 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

• Catalan: conca del Mediterrani f
• Czech: Středomoří n
• Dutch: Middellandse Zee (nl) n
• Finnish: Välimeren alue
• French: Bassin méditerranéen m, Monde méditerranéen m
• Galician: rexión mediterránea f
• Greek: Μεσόγειος (el) f (Mesógeios)
• Indonesian: Mediterania
• Macedonian: Медитера́н m (Mediterán), Средоземје n (Sredozemje)
• Polish: Śródziemnomorze (pl) n
• Portuguese: região do Mediterrâneo f, Mediterrâneo (pt) m
• Russian: Средиземномо́рье (ru) n (Sredizemnomórʹje)

Noun

Mediterranean (countable and uncountable, plural Mediterraneans)

1. (countable) Synonym of Mediterranid
2. (uncountable) Ellipsis of Mediterranean food; a style of food originating from the (often European or Near Eastern, as opposed to African) lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea.

   We're going out for some Mediterranean tonight.