mer

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Senso (English)

  1. sea (large body of water)
  2. the ocean (the continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface)

Synonyms

oc´án

itsaso

Mer

Océan Pacifique

région maritime

région marine

océandomain:envir

Frequenza

A2
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/mɛʁ/
Etimologia (English)

In summary

Inherited from Middle French mer, from Old French mer, from Latin mare, from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. The word is almost unparalleled as a Latin neuter that has become feminine without being a backformation from a plural in -a (French -e). This has been ascribed to the influence of terre (“land”). In most other Romance languages it is a masculine, the main exception being Romanian mare f.

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