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mar m. & f. (Noun) "sea" 12th cent. From Latin mare 'id.' From Proto-Italic *mari- "sea." From Proto-Indo-European *mor-i̯- "sea," but also "lake." Typically masculine except in poetry, among seafarers, and in other limited environments. The feminine form is a secondary development, however. The word is the origin of the surnames Mares, del Mar, de la Mar, and Delmares. Indo-European Romance Asturian mar, Portuguese mar, Galician mar, Catalan mar, French mer, Italian mare, amari, Romanian mare, Sardinianmare Celtic Gaulish Mori-ni (name) "(people) of the sea," Old Irish muir "sea," Welsh mor 'id.,' Old Breton mor 'id.,' Old Cornish mor 'id.' Germanic Gothic mari-saihws "sea," Old Norse marr 'id.,' Old High German mari 'id.,' Old English mere 'id.,' (English mer, first element in mermaid) Balto-Slavic Old Church Slavonic morje "sea," Russian móre 'id.,' Czech moře 'id.,' Slovene morję̑ 'id.,' Old Prussian mary 'id.,' Lithuanian mãrės 'id.' Indo-Iranian Ossetic mal "stagnant water" La mar de tonto "Absolutely stupid." From the use of the feminine as a colloquial intensifier (Butt & Benjamin 2004). Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. de Vaan, M. Etymological Dictionary of Latin and Other Italic Languages. BRILL. 2014. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008. Tibón, G. Diccionario etimológico comparado de los apellidos españoles, hispanoamericanos y filipinos. Editorial Diana: Mexico. 1988.