Category:Tramontane

Tra*mon"tane, a. Etym: [of. tramontain, it. tramontano, l. Transmontanus; trans across, beyond + mons, montis, mountain.]

Defn: lying or being beyond the mountains; coming from the other side Of the mountains; hence, foreign; barbarous.

Note: the italians sometimes use this epithet for ultramontane, and Apply it to the countries north of the alps, as france and germany, And especially to their ecclesiastics, jurists, painters, etc.; and a North wind is called a tramontane wind. The french lawyers call Certain italian canonists tramontane, or ultramontane, doctors; Considering them as favoring too much the court of rome. See Ultramontane.

Tramontane Tra*mon"tane, n.

Defn: one living beyond the mountains; hence, a foreigner; a Stranger.