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tramontane

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tra⋅mon⋅tane

  [truh-mon-teyn, tram-uhn-teyn]
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–adjective Also, transmontane.
1. being or situated beyond the mountains.
2. beyond the Alps as viewed from Italy; transalpine.
3. of, pertaining to, or coming from the other side of the mountains.
4. foreign; barbarous.
–noun
5. 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.
6. a foreigner; outlander; barbarian.
7. a violent, polar wind from the northwest that blows in southern France.
Origin:
1300–50 for an earlier sense; 1585–95 for def. 5; ME tramountayne pole star < It tramontano < L trānsmontānus beyond the mountains. See trans-, mount 2 , -an

tra⋅mon⋅ta⋅na

  [trah-muhn-tah-nuh, -tan-uh; It. trah-mawn-tah-nah]
–noun, plural -nas, Italian. -ne  [-ne] .
1. a cold wind from the north or northeast that blows in the western Mediterranean.
2. any north wind issuing from a mountainous region.
Origin:
1605–15; < It, n. use of fem. of tramontano tramontane
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tra·mon·tane   (trə-mŏn'tān', trām'ən-tān')   
adj.  

  1. Dwelling beyond or coming from the far side of the mountains, especially the Alps as viewed from Italy.

  2. From another country; foreign.

n.  

  1. A person who lives beyond the mountains.

  2. A foreigner; a stranger.

  3. A cold north wind in Italy.


[Italian tramontano, from Latin trānsmontānus : trāns-, trans- + montānus, of a mountain; see mountain.]
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