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Ultramarine

3 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means a deep, vivid blue color, originally from a pigment made from lapis lazuli
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ultra marinus
Latin · ancient
"beyond the sea"
beyond the sea, from ultra (beyond) and marinus (of the sea)
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oltremarino
Italian · medieval
"the imported deep blue pigment"
describing the deep blue pigment ground from lapis lazuli imported from beyond the sea
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ultramarine
English · 1500s
"a deep vivid blue pigment and color"
settled as the English word for the deep vivid blue pigment and color
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