circum-Adriatic

adjective

Surrounding the Adriatic Sea or relating to the regions surrounding it.

Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

adjectivecircum-Adriatic (not comparable)
  1. not comparableSurrounding the Adriatic Sea or relating to the regions surrounding it.

    [...] the circum-Adriatic elite system.

    1999, Archaeology of the Bronze and Iron Age, page 151
    3 more examples

    The circum-Adriatic species of wormwood is an independent species, and for this reason we must not group it together casually with West Mediterranean forms of wormwood in some collective species [...]

    1953, O santoninu iz jadranskega morskega pelina, page 40

    [...] the circum-Adriatic region, including Yugoslavia and southern Italy.

    1982, The Indo-Europeans in the Fourth and Third Millennia, page 2

    The circum-Adriatic elements are eastern species that spread along the coast during the interglacial stages (or post-glacial), [...]

    2002, The Lizards of Italy and Adjacent Areas, page 18

Origin

From circum- + Adriatic.

Full word history & related roots →

Translations

French circumadriatique
  • circumadriatiqueTranslations
Italian circumadriatico
  • circumadriaticoTranslations
Cite this entry
APA

circum-Adriatic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/circum-Adriatic

MLA

“circum-Adriatic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/circum-Adriatic. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “circum-Adriatic,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/circum-Adriatic.

Source: circum-Adriatic on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.