JujuFish
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FWIW, "marina" is a Latin adjective meaning "of the sea" (or, as is more easily remembered by its English cognate, "marine"). "Mare" is the most often used word in Latin for sea. So "aqua marina" literally means water of the sea.The word is aquamarine. It derives from the Latin words for "sea" and "water." It is not redundant at all.
That was a nearly pointless clarification, but I don't care.