ultramairín

Irish

Etymology

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Noun

ultramairín m (genitive singular ultramairín)

1. ultramarine (colour; pigment)

Declension

Declension of ultramairín (fourth declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative ultramairín vocative a ultramairín genitive ultramairín dative ultramairín forms with the definite article case singular nominative an t-ultramairín genitive an ultramairín dative leis an ultramairín don ultramairín

Derived terms

• ultramairíneach (“ultramarine, having blue colour”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of ultramairín

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ultramairín	n-ultramairín	hultramairín	t-ultramairín

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ultramairín”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “ultramarine”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025