“sea” in Latin

mare (general term. ☞ The Greek pelagus and pontus are poetical only): oceanus, mare oceanus (the ocean). The high sea, altum (opposed to coast or harbor): the open sea, salum (σάλος; opposed to harbor): at sea, mari: both on land and at sea, terra marique; terra et mari; et terra et mari; et mari et terra; mari atque terra. [The usual expression is terra marique; the others are used only in cases where more stress is laid on either, or where the style is more emphatic; but aqua et terra is not Latin.] To go to sea, mare ingredi; navigationi se committere (opposed to viae se committere, to set out on a road; Vid: Cic., Fam., 16, 4, in.): to be at sea, mari navigare: to put to sea [Vid: to set SAIL]; also, altum petere; in altum provehi (to the high sea): the Mediterranean sea, *mare Mediterraneum (☞ the ancients called it, by way of distinction, mare nostrum): the Black Sea, pontus Euxinus; or simply Pontus (also = the country about it): the Adriatic Sea or Gulf of Venice, mare Adriaticum: the Tuscan Sea, mare Etruscum: the Caspian Sea, mare Caspium: the Red Sea, sinus Arabicus: the Dead Sea, lacus Asphaltites: that is situate or takes place upon the sea, maritimus: in the sea, marlnus: beyond the sea, transmarinus: to be on the level of the sea, locus pari libra cum aequore maris est (Col., 8, 17). Empire of the sea, imperium maris (☞ imperii maritimi summa, in Nep., Arist., 2, 2 = the chief command at sea): command at sea, imperium maritimum: adventures at sea, *quae evenerunt in navigatione: dangers of the sea, periculum navigationis