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From Middle English mariner, maryner, from Anglo-Norman mariner, marinier, from Old French marinier, maronnier, from marin and Medieval Latin marinellus and marinarius (“sailor”), from marīnus (“marine”), from mare (“sea”) + -īnus (“-ine: _forming adjectives_”). Eclipsed Middle English marinel, marynell (“mariner, sailor”) from Old French marinel from the same sources. Equivalent to marine +‎ -er.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmæɹɪnə/
• (US) IPA(key): /ˈmæɹɪnɚ/, /ˈmɛɹɪnɚ/, /-ɹə-/
• Rhymes: -æɹɪnə(ɹ)

mariner (plural mariners)

1. Synonym of sailor, particularly one on a maritime vessel.
   • 1833 October 20 (date written), Alfred Tennyson, “Ulysses”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 90:
     My mariners, / Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me—
   • 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:
     From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.

• marineress
• marinership
• master mariner
• merchant mariner

From marí. Compare Spanish marinero, Portuguese marinheiro, French marinier, Italian marinaio. Cf. also Vulgar Latin marinarius.

• IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [mə.ɾiˈne]
• IPA(key): (Valencia) [ma.ɾiˈneɾ]

mariner (feminine marinera, masculine plural mariners, feminine plural marineres)

1. marine, sea
2. (of people) seafaring
   Eren gent marinera que sortien a la mar a pescar.
   They were seafaring people who went to sea to fish.
3. (of watercraft) seaworthy

mariner m (plural mariners, feminine marinera, feminine plural marineres)

1. sailor, seaman

• mar
• marí
• “mariner”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “mariner”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “mariner” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “mariner”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Originally "to pickle in brine or seawater", from marin (“of the sea”).

• IPA(key): /ma.ʁi.ne/

mariner

1. to marinate

• “mariner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
• ranimer
• marener, mareyner, maroner, marynar, maryneer, maryner, marynere, marynier

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman mariner; equivalent to marin +‎ -er. Compare marinel and Medieval Latin marīnārius.

• IPA(key): /ˌmariˈneːr/, /ˈmarinər/

mariner (plural mariners)

1. sailor (individual working on or navigating a ship)
   Synonyms: schipman, seeman
2. captain (commander of a ship)
   Synonym: schipman
3. (rare) pirate (seaborne robber)
   Synonym: schipman

• English: mariner
• “marinē̆r, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

mariner m

1. indefinite plural of marine

mariner

1. imperative of marinere

• marinier

marin +‎ -er.

mariner oblique singular, m (oblique plural mariners, nominative singular mariners, nominative plural **mariner)

1. seaman; sailor

• Middle French: marinier
  • French: marinier
• → Middle English: mariner, marener, mareyner, maroner, marynar, maryneer, maryner, marynere, marynier
  • English: mariner
• mariner on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

mariner m (plural marineri)

1. obsolete form of marinar

• mariner in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

mariner

1. indefinite plural of marin

• minerar