different between exotic vs ultramarine

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French exotique, from Latin ex?ticus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (ex?tikós, “foreign”, literally “from the outside”), from ???- (ex?-, “outside”), from ?? (ex, “out of”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???z?t?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???z?t?k/
• Rhymes: -?t?k

Adjective

exotic (comparative more exotic, superlative most exotic)

1. Foreign, especially in an exciting way.

   • Nothing was so splendid and exotic as the ambassador.
2. Non-native to the ecosystem.
3. (finance) Being or relating to an option with features that make it more complex than commonly traded options.

Derived terms

Related terms

• exotica

Translations

Noun

exotic (plural exotics)

1. (biology) An organism that is exotic to an environment.
   • c.1948, George Orwell, Such, Such Were the Joys

     There were a few exotics among them — some South American boys, sons of Argentine beef barons, one or two Russians, and even a Siamese prince, or someone who was described as a prince.

2. An exotic dancer; a stripteaser.
3. (physics) Any exotic particle.

Derived terms

• invasive exotic

Translations

Further reading

• Exotic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Exotic in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• coxite, excito-

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin ex?ticus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

exotic m (feminine singular exotica, masculine plural exotics, feminine plural exoticas)

1. exotic

Romanian

Etymology

From French exotique, from Latin exoticus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e??zo.tik/

Adjective

exotic m or n (feminine singular exotic?, masculine plural exotici, feminine and neuter plural exotice)

1. exotic

Declension

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ultr?mar?nus, from ultr? + mar?nus. May be decomposed as ultra- +? marine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l.t??.m???i?n/
• Rhymes: -i?n

Noun

ultramarine (countable and uncountable, plural ultramarines)

1. A brilliant blue pigment that is either extracted from mineral deposits or made synthetically; traditionally made from ground-up lapis lazuli.
2. A brilliant pure dark blue or slightly purplish colour.

Translations

Adjective

ultramarine (comparative more ultramarine, superlative most ultramarine)

1. Of a brilliant blue colour.
2. Beyond the sea.
   • 1769, Edmund Burke, Observations on a Late State of the Nation, fourth edition, London: J. Dodsley, pages 10–11:

     If the war is carried on in the colonies, he [George Grenville] tells them that the lo?s of her [France’s] ultramarine dominions le??ens her expences, and en?ures her remittances […]

Translations

See also

• (blues) blue; Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, baby blue, beryl, bice, bice blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, 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, slate blue, sky blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine, Wedgwood blue, zaffre ^{(Category: en:Blues)}

French

Adjective

ultramarine

1. feminine singular of ultramarin

German

Adjective

ultramarine

1. inflection of ultramarin:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Adjective

ultramarine

1. feminine plural of ultramarino