ultramarino

Italian

Adjective

ultramarino (feminine ultramarina, masculine plural ultramarini, feminine plural ultramarine)

1. alternative form of oltremarino

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Latin ūls

Proto-Indo-European *-teros?

Latin -ter

Old Latin -ād

Latin -ā

Latin ultrālbor.

Portuguese ultra-

Portuguese marino

Portuguese ultramarino

From ultra- + marino.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /uw.tɾa.maˈɾĩ.nu/ [uʊ̯.tɾa.maˈɾĩ.nu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /uw.tɾa.maˈɾĩ.nu/ [uʊ̯.tɾa.maˈɾĩ.nu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /uw.tɾa.maˈɾi.no/ [uʊ̯.tɾa.maˈɾi.no]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ul.tɾɐ.mɐˈɾi.nu/ [uɫ.tɾɐ.mɐˈɾi.nu]

• Hyphenation: ul‧tra‧ma‧ri‧no

Adjective

ultramarino (feminine ultramarina, masculine plural ultramarinos, feminine plural ultramarinas)

1. overseas (occurring or relating to a different nation, especially one across a sea)

Further reading

• “ultramarino”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “ultramarino”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

From ultra- + marino.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ultɾamaˈɾino/ [ul̪.t̪ɾa.maˈɾi.no]
• Rhymes: -ino
• Syllabification: ul‧tra‧ma‧ri‧no

Adjective

ultramarino (feminine ultramarina, masculine plural ultramarinos, feminine plural ultramarinas)

1. overseas

Noun

ultramarino m (plural ultramarinos)

1. (Spain, usually in the plural) food product, foodstuff, grocery
   • 1891, José María de Pereda, Pedro Sánchez, chapter 11:

     Lo que hay es que tengo cuatro trapitos y media docena de trastos viejos aquí, hace ya muchos años, en poder de un amigo, comerciante de ultramarinos.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Related terms

• azul ultramarino
• ultramar

Further reading

• “ultramarino”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025