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transmontane

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trans⋅mon⋅tane

  [trans-mon-teyn, tranz-, trans-mon-teyn, tranz-]
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–adjective
tramontane.
Origin:
1720–30; < L trānsmontānus; see trans-, mount 2 , -an

tra⋅mon⋅tane

  [truh-mon-teyn, tram-uhn-teyn]
–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
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trans·mon·tane   (trāns-mŏn'tān', trānz-, trāns'mŏn-tān', trānz'-)   
adj.  Tramontane.

[Latin trānsmontānus; see tramontane.]
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