ultramarine英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

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. countable,uncountable
A brilliant dark blue or slightly purplish colour like that of the pigment. countable,uncountable

— 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.

形容词 adj.

Beyond the sea. archaic

— [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).

词形变化

more ultramarine comparative most ultramarine superlative ultramarines plural

词汇关系

衍生词

green ultramarine ultramarine ash

词源

词源 1

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”.

词源 2

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”.