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Mediterranean Lingua Franca

Mediterranean Lingua Franca proper noun: sabir, the pidgin Italian-based lingua franca spoken along the Mediterranean to facilitate trade from the 11th to the 19th centuries.

Proper noun (1)

the Mediterranean Lingua Franca

  1. (historical) Sabir, the pidgin Italian-based lingua franca spoken along the Mediterranean to facilitate trade from the 11th to the 19th centuries.
    • The Mediterranean lingua franca never evolved into anyone's mother tongue, which is why there are very few written traces of it.2008, Jean-Benoit Nadeau et al., The Story of French, section 34
    Synonyms:
    Lingua Franca

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Mediterranean lingua franca

Mediterranean lingua franca

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Mediterranean Lingua Franca.
    • The Mediterranean lingua franca never evolved into anyone's mother tongue, which is why there are very few written traces of it.2008, Jean-Benoit Nadeau et al., The Story of French, section 34

Synonyms of Mediterranean Lingua Franca

Forms of Mediterranean Lingua Franca

alternative formMediterranean lingua franca

Origin of Mediterranean Lingua Franca

From the addition of Mediterranean to distinguish the particular sense of Lingua Franca from generic uses of the term.

Questions about Mediterranean Lingua Franca

What does Mediterranean Lingua Franca mean?
Mediterranean Lingua Franca means sabir, the pidgin Italian-based lingua franca spoken along the Mediterranean to facilitate trade from the 11th to the 19th centuries.
What part of speech is Mediterranean Lingua Franca?
Mediterranean Lingua Franca is a proper noun.

Words near Mediterranean Lingua Franca in the dictionary

  1. Mediterranean Irish
  2. Mediterranean Irishman
  3. Mediterranean Irishmen
  4. Mediterranean lens
  5. Mediterranean lenses
  6. Mediterranean Lingua Franca
  7. Mediterranean lymphoma
  8. Mediterranean medlar
  9. Mediterranean medlars
  10. Mediterranean monk seal
  11. Mediterranean monk seals

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Mediterranean Lingua Franca (page history and authors); Mediterranean lingua franca (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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