Mediterranean

詳細解釋：

med.i.ter.ra.ne.an

adj.（形容詞）
Surrounded nearly or completely by dry land. Used of large bodies of water, such as lakes or seas.
地中海的：幾乎被陸地所包圍或完全被陸地所包圍的。用於指較大的水體，如湖泊或海洋

來源：
Latin mediterr3neus [inland]
拉丁語 mediterr3neus [內陸]
medius [middle] * see medhyo-
medius [中間的] *參見 medhyo-
terra [land] * see ters-
terra [陸地] *參見 ters-

<注釋>When one hears the wordmediterranean, one thinks of a specific placeand perhaps of the great cultures that have surrounded it.But the word can also apply to any large body of water that is surrounded completely or almost completely by dry land.This usage goes back to the use in Late Latin of the Latin wordmediterr3neus, the source of our word,as part of the nameMediterr3neum mare for the mostly landlocked Mediterranean Sea. But Latinmediterr3neus, which is derived from medius, .the middle of, the heart of,. and terra, .land,. in Classical Latin actually meant .remote from the coast, inland..In Late Latin,in referring to the sea,mediterr3neus probably meant originally .in the middle of the earth.rather than .surrounded by land,.for to the Mediterranean cultures without knowledge of much of the earth,the Mediterranean Sea was in the center of the world.Our wordmediterranean is first recorded in English in 594 as the name of the sea.
當一個人聽說mediterranean 這個詞時， 他所想到的是一具體的地方，而且可能還想到了這個地方周圍的那些偉大文明。但這個詞同樣可以用來指任何幾乎被陸地所包圍或完全被陸地所包圍的大水體。這個用法可以追溯到近代拉丁文中mediterraneus 這個詞， 就是我們這個詞的詞源，亦即表絕大部分被陸地所包圍的地中海的名稱Mediterraneum mare 的組成部分。 但是拉丁詞mediterraneus ，從 medius 意為.…中間的，…的中心.派生而來的，以及意為.陸地.的 terra 這個詞， 在古典拉丁語中的確切含義為.遠離海岸的，內陸的.。在近代拉丁語中，當mediterraneus 這個詞用來指地中海時， 其最早的含義可能是.在地球中央的.，而不是.被陸地所包圍的.，因為對於缺乏有關地球知識的各地中海文明來說，地中海就是世界的中心。我們這裡所說的英文單詞mediterranean 最早於594年出現於英文中， 也是用來指地中海