mer

Meaning

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

Concepts

sea

🌊

ocean

🌊

mare

sea

🌊

sea

🌊

sea

🌊

sea

🌊

body of water

bounding main

sea

🌊

sea

🌊

neptune

Ocean

🌊

Tyrrhenian Sea

marine areas

ocean spaces

ocean trip

choppy sea

beach

🏖️

briny

Irish Sea

lake

North Sea

oceans

seas

voyage

Beaufort Sea

Baltic Sea

Synonyms

océan

oc´án

itsaso

voyage

Mer

océan Indien

Océan Pacifique

région maritime

traversée

région marine

lac

océandomain:envir

mare

océan Atlantique

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mɛʁ/

Etymology

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.

Sentences

Ceux malades avec le mal de mer .

Those sick with seasickness.

Il partit peindre des scènes marines ailleurs , en particulier en mer Méditerranée .

He went to paint marine scenes elsewhere, especially in the Mediterranean Sea.

Il sépare le Veerse Meer de la mer du Nord .

It separates the Veerse Meer from the North Sea.

L’interminable nuit couvrait encore la mer polaire .

The endless night still covered the polar sea.

Cette espèce se rencontre dans tout l'Indo-Pacifique tropical , de la Mer Rouge à Panama .

This species is found throughout the tropical Indo-Pacific, from the Red Sea to Panama.

La marine suédoise était la troisième plus grande flotte dans la mer Baltique .

The Swedish Navy was the third largest fleet in the Baltic Sea.

Elles ont été découvertes dans de l'ambre de la mer Baltique .

They were discovered in amber from the Baltic Sea.