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mer

Pronunciation: /mɛʁ/

“mer” is a French word. Its 2 meanings in English:

noun

  1. sea (large body of water)
  2. the ocean (the continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface)

In French

  1. Vaste étendue d’eau salée qui baigne les diverses parties de la terre.
  2. Son état pour la navigation.
  3. Grande étendue de liquide.
  4. Vaste étendue.
  5. héraldique représentant une étendue liquide dans les fr. Il s’agit d'une zone colorée couvrant le tiers inférieur du champ (donc fr de la fr) avec une ligne de découpe supérieure fr rappelant les vagues ainsi que d’ombrages ou lignes également ondées sur la zone colorée. On la dit fr quand les vagues sont représentées d’un autre fr.
  6. Plaine basaltique grande et sombre de la Lune.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French mer, from Old French mer, from Latin mare, from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. The word is almost unparalleled as a Latin neuter that has become feminine without being a backformation from a plural in -a (French -e). This has been ascribed to the influence of terre (“land”). In most other Romance languages it is a masculine, the main exception…

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