# ultramarine
## English
### Etymology

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”.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌʌltɹəməˈɹiːn/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˌəltɹəməˈɹin/
* Rhymes: -iːn
* Hyphenation: ul‧tra‧mar‧ine

### Adjective

ultramarine (comparative more ultramarine, superlative most ultramarine)
* (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.
* Of a brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish color like that of the pigment (noun sense 1).
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### Noun

ultramarine (countable and uncountable, plural ultramarines)
* 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.
** 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.

#### Derived terms

* green ultramarine
* ultramarine ash

#### See also

* Appendix:Colors
* Alice blue
* aqua
* aquamarine
* azure
* baby blue
* beryl
* bice
* bice blue
* blueberry
* blue green
* blue violet
* 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
* sky blue
* slate blue
* teal
* turquoise
* ultramarine
* Wedgwood blue
* zaffre

### References
## French
### Adjective

ultramarine
* feminine singular of ultramarin

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

ultramarine
* inflection of ultramarin:
** strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
** strong nominative/accusative plural
** weak nominative all-gender singular
** weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

## Italian
### Adjective

ultramarine f pl
* feminine plural of ultramarino