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  2. Nostrum - Wikipedia

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    Nostrum remedium, a Latin term for trademarked patent medicine. Air Nostrum, a regional airline based in Spain. Exultavit cor nostrum, a 13th Century papal bull. Mare Nostrum, a Latin nickname for the Mediterranean sea. Pascha Nostrum, an Easter hymn. Nostrum Oil & Gas, an oil and gas exploration and production company.

  3. Mare Nostrum - Wikipedia

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    Mare Nostrum (/ ˌ m ɑː r ɪ ˈ n ɒ s t r ə m /; [1] Latin: "Our Sea") was a Roman name for the Mediterranean Sea. In Classical Latin , it would have been pronounced [ˈma.rɛ ˈnɔs.t̪rʊ̃ː] , and in Ecclesiastical Latin , it is pronounced [ˈmaː.rɛ ˈnɔs.t̪rum] .

  4. List of Latin phrases (full) - Wikipedia

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    The source of the word camera. Cane Nero magna bella Persica: Tell, oh Nero, of the great wars of Persia: Perfectly correct Latin sentence usually reported as funny from modern Italians because the same exact words, in today's dialect of Rome, mean "A black dog eats a beautiful peach", which has a ridiculously different meaning. canes pugnaces

  5. Names of the Mediterranean Sea - Wikipedia

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    The Latin word is a calque of Greek μεσόγειος (mesógeios; 'inland'), from μέσος (mésos, 'in the middle') and γήινος (gḗinos, 'of the earth'), from γῆ (gê, 'land, earth'). The original meaning may have been 'the sea in the middle of the earth', rather than 'the sea enclosed by land'.

  6. List of Latin phrases (C) - Wikipedia

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    The source of the word camera. Cane Nero magna bella Persica: Tell, oh Nero, of the great wars of Persia: Perfectly correct Latin sentence usually reported as funny from modern Italians because the same exact words, in today's dialect of Rome, mean "A black dog eats a beautiful peach", which has a ridiculously different meaning. canes pugnaces

  7. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus or synonym dictionary lists similar or related words; these are often, but not always, synonyms. [15] The word poecilonym is a rare synonym of the word synonym. It is not entered in most major dictionaries and is a curiosity or piece of trivia for being an autological word because of its meta quality as a synonym of synonym.

  8. List of Latin phrases (M) - Wikipedia

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    mare nostrum: our sea: A nickname given to the Mediterranean during the height of the Roman Empire, as it encompassed the entire coastal basin. Mater Dei: Mother of God: A name given to describe Mary, who gave birth to Jesus, who is also called the Son of God. mater familias: the mother of the family: The female head of a family. See pater ...

  9. Google Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Google Dictionary is an online dictionary service of Google that can be accessed with the "define" operator and other similar phrases [note 1] in Google Search. [2] It is also available in Google Translate and as a Google Chrome extension. The dictionary content is licensed from Oxford University Press's Oxford Languages. [3]