adjective/me.di.tɛ.ʁa.ne/
inland (remote from the coast)
“Le détroit de Davis communique à plusieurs mers méditerranées.” — Davis Strait communicates with several inland seas.
Related: méditerranéité, mer Méditerranée
From Middle French mediterrané, mediterranee, a learned borrowing from Latin mediterrāneus, itself from medius + terra + -āneus (the last element from -ānus + -eus). 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 -an