méditerranée

== French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /me.di.tɛ.ʁa.ne/ ~ /me.di.te.ʁa.ne/ === Etymology 1 === ==== Adjective ==== méditerranée (plural méditerranées) obsolete form of méditerrané ===== Usage notes ===== In modern French, only words descending from Latin borrowings of Greek origin ending in the suffixes -ēus/-ēum, -aeus/-aeum (and exceptionally -ius/-ium, as in élysée/Élysée) are written with -ée in the masculine. Words descending from Latin words in -āneus (a different suffix, from -ānus +‎ -eus), are now written with the ending -ané (as seen, for example, in momentané, spontané). The first four editions of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française spelled these words with -anée before adopting the current spelling in the fifth edition. ==== Further reading ==== “méditerranée”, in Dictionnaire de l'Académie française (in French), 1st edition, 1694 === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Adjective ==== méditerranée feminine singular of méditerrané