tramontane

1. 1.

   a cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean

   Synonymstramontana

   Broadernorth wind

Other forms of tramontane

plural

tramontanes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tramontane

What does tramontane mean?

tramontane means "on or coming from the other side of the mountains (from the speaker)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tramontane?

tramontane has 3 syllables and divides as tra-mon-tane under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for tramontane?

Close synonyms include transmontane, tramontana. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of tramontane?

The recorded antonyms are cismontane.

Is tramontane a common word?

tramontane is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.