mare nostrum

[ mah-re nohs-troom; English mair-ee nos-truhm, mahr-ey ]

noun

, Latin.

1. our sea, especially the Mediterranean to the ancient Romans.

mare nostrum

/ ˈmɑːreɪ ˈnɒstrʊm /

noun

1. the Latin name for the Mediterranean

Word History and Origins

Origin of mare nostrum¹

literally: our sea

Example Sentences

The Mediterranean became a Roman lake,—mare nostrum, they said,—and the same life circulated on all its shores, called for the first and the last time to a common existence.

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The divinities of mare nostrum always inspired a most loving devotion in the doctor.

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THE MEDITERRANEAN, your ideal blue sea: to Greeks simply "the sea," to Hebrews "the great sea," to Romans mare nostrum.*

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All their warlike or pacific movements were with intent to descend from the coasts of the glacial seas to the beaches of the warm mare nostrum.

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He adored the mare nostrum as much as Doctor Ferragut, but his enthusiasm was not concerned with the Phoenician and Egyptian ships whose keels had first plowed these waves.

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