mare nostrum

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   (our sea) the Mediterranean to the ancient Romans

   BroaderMediterranean

Questions about mare nostrum

What does mare nostrum mean?

mare nostrum means "(our sea) the Mediterranean to the ancient Romans".

Is mare nostrum a common word?

mare nostrum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.