Mare Nostrum

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈma.rɛ ˈnɔs.trũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmaː.re ˈnɔs.trum]

Mare Nostrum n sg (genitive Maris Nostrī); third declension

1. Mediterranean Sea (a sea), Literally, “Our Sea”
   • 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, vi, 47 (alt. 32):

     […] multīs gentibus eōrum dēductīs illō ā Tigrāne Magnō, sponte vērō ad mare nostrum lītusque 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 […]

   • Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     Aegyptus inferior ab oriente habet Palaestīnam, ab occasū Libyam, ab septentriōne mare Nōstrum...

     Lower Egypt has Palestine to its east, Libya to its west, the Mediterranean to its north...

Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem) with a second-declension adjective, singular only.

• Mare Magnum
• Mare Internum
• Mare Mediterrāneum (Late Latin)

Mare Nostrum m

1. Mediterranean; Mediterranean Sea

   Synonyms: mar Mediterráneo, Mediterráneo