Mare Nostrumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.re ˈnos.trum/, [ˈmärɛ ˈnɔs̠t̪rʊ̃ˑ]

• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.re ˈnos.trum/, [ˈmäːre ˈnɔst̪rum]

固有名詞

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):

     […] multis gentibus eorum deductis illo a Tigrane Magno, sponte vero ad mare nostrum litusque 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 […]