tramontane

[ truh-mon-teyn, tram-uhn-teyn ]

adjectiveAlso transmontane.
  1. being or situated beyond the mountains.

  2. beyond the Alps as viewed from Italy; transalpine.

  1. of, relating to, or coming from the other side of the mountains.

  2. foreign; barbarous.

noun
  1. a person who lives beyond the mountains: formerly applied by the Italians to the peoples beyond the Alps, and by the latter to the Italians.

  2. a foreigner; outlander; barbarian.

  1. a violent, polar wind from the northwest that blows in southern France.

Origin of tramontane

1
1300–50 for an earlier sense; 1585–95 for def. 5; Middle English tramountayne pole star <Italian tramontano<Latin trānsmontānus beyond the mountains. See trans-, mount2, -an

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tramontane

/ (trəˈmɒnteɪn) /


adjectiveAlso: transmontane
  1. being or coming from the far side of the mountains, esp from the other side of the Alps as seen from Italy

  2. foreign or barbarous

  1. (of a wind) blowing down from the mountains

noun
  1. an inhabitant of a tramontane country

  2. Also called: tramontana a cold dry wind blowing south or southwest from the mountains in Italy and the W Mediterranean

  1. rare a foreigner or barbarian

Origin of tramontane

1
C16: from Italian tramontano, from Latin trānsmontānus, from trans- + montānus, from mōns mountain

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