Where does “Mediterranean” come from?
Mediterranean derives from Latin mediterraneus, composed of Latin terra meaning "earth" and Proto-Indo-European médʰyos meaning "middle," itself from the root medʰi- ultimately descended from Proto-Indo-European me-.
Mediterranean (English): Of or pertaining to the Mediterranean Sea and the...
Definitions
- Of or pertaining to the Mediterranean Sea and the...
Ancestry of “Mediterranean”, step by step
Words derived from “Mediterranean”
- submediterranean
- Mediterraneanize
- Mediterraneanise
- sub-Mediterranean
- sub-mediterranean
- medicane
- circummediterranean
- Euro-Mediterranean
- Mediterraneanism
- Mediterraneanness
- oromediterranean
- Proto-Mediterranean
- supramediterranean
- thermomediterranean
- เมดิเตอร์เรเนียน
- Mediterraneanisation
- Mediterraneanization
- Medicane
- médicane