ultramarine
/ˌʌltɹəməˈɹiːn/ · adj
Meaning
- Beyond the sea.
- Of a brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish color like that of the pigment (noun sense 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.
- A brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour like that of the pigment.
Etymology / origin
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”.
- ultrā(la)→
- ultrāmarīnus(la-med)→
- *h₂el-(ine-pro)→
- ultramarine (English)
- Relations: root, bor, der
Related words
Descendant words
- ultramariini(Finnish) (cog)
- ウルトラマリン(Japanese) (cog)
- 울트라마린(Korean) (cog)
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