Ultramar

• vltramar, vltra mar (alternative spellings)

Borrowed Old French Outremer (literally “overseas”) as a territorial designation.

• IPA^(key): [ul.tɾaˈmaɾ]

Ultramar m

1. (historical) the Holy Land; the Crusader states established after the First Crusade
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 1r.

     Ont te ruego q́ tu me enbies eſripto en vna carta la faziéda de vltra mar. E los nóbres de laſ cibdades ¬ de las tierras como ovieró nóbre. En latin ¬ en ebraẏco. equáto a de la vna cibdat ala otra. E las marauẏllas q́ nro ſénor dios fezo en ih́rĺm. e en toda la tierra de vltramar.

     So I pray you send to me written in a latter an account of the Holy Land, and the names of the cities and of the lands and the names they had in Latin and Hebrew, and the distance from one city to the other, and the wonders that Our Lord God worked in Jerusalem and throughout the Holy Land.

• ultramar