Tra-mŏn′tane or Trăm′on-tāne1, a.
(Synop., § 130), a. [O. Fr. tramontain, Sp. & It. tramontana, Pr. tramont, trasmon, Lat. transmontanus, from trans, across, beyond, and mons, montis, mountain.] Lying or being beyond the mountain; foreign; barbarous.
☞ 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, &c.; 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.