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The Learning Kingdom's Cool Word of the Day for March 25, 1999
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ultramarine [adj., n. ul-truh-muh-REEN]
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Ultramarine is a vivid blue color, and it is also the name of a
pigment that is the same color.
Since the word's Latin origin, ultramarinus, literally means "beyond
the sea" you might think that it means "bluer than blue" or "deeper
than navy blue." Actually, the color was originally made by grinding
up the mineral called lapis lazuli. That mineral was called
ultramarinus in Medieval Latin because it was imported from Asia,
which was beyond the sea.
Lapis lazuli is itself related to another blue word, azure. It's from
the Latin lapis (stone) and Medieval Latin lazuli, from the Arabic al-
lazaward (blue stone), which came from the Persian lajward (blue).
The bright blue minerals azurite, lazulite, and lazurite inherited
their names from the same source.
More about lapis lazuli:
http://www.theimage.com/gemstone/lapis/lapis.html
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