Lemma 1mare
nounneuter
sea; sea waterMorphology
nominative pluralmar + ia · regular
vocative pluralmar + ia · regular
accusative pluralmar + ia · regular
Lewis & Short
măre, is, [root mar-, gleam, glimmer (, Il. 14, 273); ; marmor; mīras, sea; marei; Angl. - Sax. mere; Meer. Curtius, however, refers these words to root mar-, die; morior, marceo] mare, Varr. and 111 P.; and in ; marum, Naev. P., the sea, to dry land.
: sol, qui Mare, terram, caelum contines tuo cum lumine, Enn. Prob. (Trag. 322 Vahl.): indu mari magno, (Ann. 425 ): terrā marique, by sea and by land; terra. — In : maria salsa, Enn. (Trag. 145 Vahl.). — as a figure for hard-heartedness; also: Nam mare haud est mare; vos mare acerrumum: meretricem ego item esse reor mare ut est — In apposition with Oceanus — Prov.: mare caelo miscere, to mingle sea and sky, to raise a terrific storm, bluster: terrā marique aliquid quaerere or conquirere, to search for a thing by sea and land, everywhere; Vatin. : maria et montes polliceri, to promise seas and mountains, more than one can perform: his qui contentus non est, in mare fundat aquas, pour water into the sea, fill that which is already full.
, of single seas: mare inferum, the Etruscan Sea, Cic. l. l.; Mel. l. l.: mare rubrum, ruber.
( and in prose).
Sea-water, salt-water: (id est, sine aqua marina, Schol. Acr.)
The color of the sea, sea-green.
Of the air: mare aëris, the sea, expanse of air.
A large vessel.