ultramarine

Borrowed from Medieval Latin ultrāmarīnus, from Latin ultrā (“beyond”) + marīnus (“of or relating to the sea, marine”). By surface analysis, ultra +‎ marine.

Noun sense 1 (“pigment”) refers to the fact that lapis lazuli was obtained from foreign countries and hence “beyond the sea”.^[1]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌʌltɹəməˈɹiːn/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌəltɹəməˈɹin/
• Rhymes: -iːn
• Hyphenation: ul‧tra‧mar‧ine

ultramarine (comparative more ultramarine, superlative most ultramarine)

1. (archaic) Beyond the sea.

   Synonyms: overseas, transmarine

   Antonym: cismarine

   • 1769, [Edmund Burke], Observations on a Late State of the Nation, London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC, page 8:

     [I]n England we ſhall never be taught to look upon the annihilation of our trade, the ruin of our credit, the defeat of our armies, and the loſs of our ultramarine dominions (whatever the author may think of them), to be the high road to proſperity and greatneſs.

2. Of a brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish color like that of the pigment (noun sense 1).

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ultramarine (countable and uncountable, plural ultramarines)

1. In full ultramarine blue: a brilliant blue pigment traditionally made from ground-up lapis lazuli, and now usually either extracted from mineral deposits or made synthetically.
2. A brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour like that of the pigment.
   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter II, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The Maiden), page 14:

     The atmosphere beneath is languorous, and is so tinged with azure that what artists call the middle distance partakes also of that hue, while the horizon beyond is of the deepest ultramarine.

• green ultramarine
• ultramarine ash

• Appendix:Colors

ultramarine

1. feminine singular of ultramarin

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ultramarine

1. inflection of ultramarin:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

ultramarine f pl

1. feminine plural of ultramarino