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- New Latin · derived fromMare Muscoviensis
- translingual · calque ofMare Muscoviensis
- English todaySea of Moscow
A calque of translingual Mare Muscoviensis (literally “Muscovian Sea”), from New Latin Mare Muscoviensis, from Latin mare (“sea”) + Latin Muscoviensis (“Muscovian, of Muscovy”)
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.