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A⋅dri⋅at⋅ic

  [ey-dree-at-ik, ad-ree-]
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–adjective
1. of or pertaining to the Adriatic Sea.
–noun
2. Adriatic Sea.
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Adriatic Sea

 
–noun
an arm of the Mediterranean between Italy and the Balkan Peninsula.
Also called Adriatic.
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Adriatic Sea [(ay-dree-at-ik)]

An arm of the Mediterranean Sea bordered by Italy to the west and north, and Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia, and Albania to the east.

The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

Adriatic 
sea east of Italy, from L. Adriaticus, from town of Atria (modern Atri) in Picenum, from atra, neut. of atrum "black," hence "the black city." The masc. proper name Adrian is from L. Adrianus/Hadrianus, lit. "of the Adriatic."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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