marine (adj.) Copy link • marine (adj.): mărīnus (physically connected with the sea; of things, not people): a land (animal) differs from a m. one, terrenum differt a marino, Quint. 5, 10, 61: Cic. N. D. 2, 16, 43 (marinis terrenisque humoribus). Phr.: m. stores, navalia, Liv. 45, 23, post init. (quae ad in naves faciendas, reficiendas, instruendas pertinent): m. insurance, nauticum fenus (v. insurance).