ultramarine

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ultrāmarīnus, from ultrā + marīnus. May be decomposed as ultra- +‎ marine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌʌl.tɹə.məˈɹiːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn

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Noun

ultramarine (countable and uncountable, plural ultramarines)

1. A brilliant blue pigment that is either extracted from mineral deposits or made synthetically; traditionally made from ground-up lapis lazuli.
2. A brilliant pure dark blue or slightly purplish colour.
   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 12:

     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.

   ultramarine:  

Translations

pigment

• Catalan: blau d'ultramar (ca) m
• Dutch: ultramarijn (nl) n
• Estonian: ultramariinsinine
• Finnish: ultramariini (fi)
• French: outremer (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Ultramarinblau n, Königsblau (de) n
• Irish: ultramairín m
• Italian: ultramarino m
• Japanese: ウルトラマリン (ja) (urutoramarin)
• Russian: ультрамари́н (ru) m (ulʹtramarín)

colour

• Catalan: blau d'ultramar (ca)
• Dutch: ultramarijn (nl) n
• Finnish: ultramariini (fi), merensininen (fi)
• French: outremer (fr) m
• German: Ultramarinblau n
• Irish: ultramairín m, ultramhuiríneach, gorm ultramhuiríneach, úrghorm
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: blu oltremare (it) m
• Japanese: 群青色 (ja) (ぐんじょういろ, gunjōiro)
• Russian: ультрамари́н (ru) m (ulʹtramarín)
• Spanish: azul ultramarino m, azul de ultramar m, azul ultramaro
• Vietnamese: lam sẫm

Adjective

ultramarine (comparative more ultramarine, superlative most ultramarine)

1. Of a brilliant blue colour.
2. Beyond the sea.
   • 1769, Edmund Burke, Observations on a Late State of the Nation, fourth edition, London: J. Dodsley, pages 10–11:

     If the war is carried on in the colonies, he [George Grenville] tells them that the loſs of her [France’s] ultramarine dominions leſſens her expences, and enſures her remittances […]

Translations

colour

• Catalan: ultramarí (ca)
• Finnish: ultramariini (fi), merensininen (fi)
• French: outremer (fr) m or f
• German: ultramarinblau
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: ultramairíneach
• Italian: oltremarino
• Japanese: 群青色の (ぐんじょういろの, gunjyōiro no)
• Korean: 군청 (ko) (群靑, guncheong), 군청색 (ko) (群靑色, guncheongsæk), 남청색 (藍靑色, namcheongsæk)

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Translations to be checked

• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} ясносин (jasnosin)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Ido: ^{(please verify)} ultramaro (io)

See also

• (blues) blue; Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, baby blue, beryl, bice, bice blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, cadet blue, Cambridge blue, cerulean, cobalt blue, Copenhagen blue, cornflower, cornflower blue, cyan, dark blue, Dodger blue, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric blue, gentian blue, ice blue, lapis lazuli, light blue, lovat, mazarine, midnight blue, navy, Nile blue, Oxford blue, peacock blue, petrol blue, powder blue, Prussian blue, robin's-egg blue, royal blue, sapphire, saxe blue, slate blue, sky blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine, Wedgwood blue, zaffre ^{(Category: en:Blues)}

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French

Adjective

ultramarine

1. feminine singular of ultramarin

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German

Adjective

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

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Italian

Adjective

1. (deprecated template usage) Feminine plural of adjective ultramarino.