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maritime

French, adjective/ma.ʁi.tim/

maritime is spelled M-A-R-I-T-I-M-E (8 letters) and appears 20 times per million words in written French, the 3,835th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Maritime is a French adjective meaning “maritime” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui se trouve au bord ou dans le voisinage de la mer”.

What does maritime mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    maritime

    le droit maritime

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Qui se trouve au bord ou dans le voisinage de la mer. 2. Qui est adonné à la navigation sur mer. 3. Qui a rapport à la mer, à la navigation sur mer. 4. Qui a rapport aux marins.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of maritime

  • maritimes plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce maritime?

  • /ma.ʁi.tim/
  • \ma.ʁi.tim\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to maritime

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is maritime in French?

maritime appears 20 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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