ultramarine

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌʌltɹəməˈɹiːn/
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• General-American: /ˌəltɹəməˈɹin/
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• rhymes with -iːn
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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”.

74 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: задморски (zadmorski) — beyond the sea
• French: ultramarin — beyond the sea
• Italian: oltremare — beyond the sea
• Italian: trasmarino — beyond the sea
• Portuguese: ultramarino — beyond the sea
• Portuguese: transfretano — beyond the sea
• Spanish: ultramarino — beyond the sea
• Bulgarian: ясносин (jasnosin) — of a brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Bulgarian: ултрамаринен (ultramarinen) — of a brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Catalan: ultramarí — of a brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Dutch: ultramarijn — of a brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Finnish: ultramariini — of a brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Finnish: merensininen — of a brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Finnish: ultramariininsininen — of a brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• French: ultramarin — of a brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• French: outremer — of a brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Georgian: ზღვისიქითა (zɣvisikita) — of a brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• German: ultramarin — of a brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• German: ultramarinblau — of a brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Hungarian: ultramarin — of a brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Hungarian: ultramarinkék — of a brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Indonesian: ultramarin — of a brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Irish: ultramairíneach — of a brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Italian: oltremare — of a brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Italian: oltremarino — of a brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Italian: trasmarino — of a brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Japanese: 群青色の (gunjō-iro no) — of a brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Korean: 군청(群靑)의 (guncheong-ui) — of a brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Korean: 군청색(群靑色)의 (guncheongsaeg-ui) — of a brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Korean: 남청색(藍靑色)의 (namcheongsaeg-ui) — of a brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Malay: ultramarin — of a brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Swedish: ultramarin — of a brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Catalan: blau d'ultramar — brilliant blue pigment
• Dutch: ultramarijn — brilliant blue pigment
• Estonian: ultramariinsinine — brilliant blue pigment
• Finnish: ultramariini — brilliant blue pigment
• French: outremer — brilliant blue pigment
• Georgian: ულტრამარინი (ulṭramarini) — brilliant blue pigment
• German: Ultramarinblau — brilliant blue pigment
• German: Königsblau — brilliant blue pigment
• Irish: ultramairín — brilliant blue pigment
• Italian: ultramarino — brilliant blue pigment
• Japanese: ウルトラマリン (urutoramarin) — brilliant blue pigment
• Korean: 울트라마린 (ulteuramarin) — brilliant blue pigment
• Middle English: asure — brilliant blue pigment
• Polish: ultramaryna — brilliant blue pigment
• Polish: farbka — brilliant blue pigment
• Russian: ультрамари́н (ulʹtramarín) — brilliant blue pigment
• Spanish: azul ultramarino — brilliant blue pigment
• Swedish: ultramarin — brilliant blue pigment
• Catalan: blau d'ultramar — brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Chinese Mandarin: 羣青 /群青 (qúnqīng) — brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Dutch: ultramarijn — brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Finnish: ultramariini — brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Finnish: merensininen — brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• French: outremer — brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Georgian: ულტრამარინი (ulṭramarini) — brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• German: Ultramarinblau — brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Irish: ultramairín — brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Irish: gorm ultramhuiríneach — brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Irish: ultramhuiríneach — brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Irish: úrghorm — brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Italian: oltremare — brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Italian: blu oltremare — brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Japanese: 群青 (gunjō) — brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Japanese: 群青色 (gunjōiro) — brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Polish: ultramaryna — brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Russian: ультрамари́н (ulʹtramarín) — brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Spanish: azul de ultramar — brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Spanish: azul ultramarino — brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Spanish: azul ultramaro — brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Swedish: ultramarin — brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Tibetan: མུ་མེན (mu men) — brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour
• Vietnamese: lam sẫm — brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour