ultra
English
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Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈʌltɹə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
[edit]ultra (comparative more ultra, superlative most ultra)
Noun
[edit]ultra (plural ultras)
- An ultraroyalist in France.
- 1828, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter XVI, in Pelham; or, The Adventures of a Gentleman. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 114:
- Her soirées were among the most agreeable at Paris—she united all the rank and talent to be found in the ultra party, for she professed to be quite a female Mæcenas; […]
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 37:
- "At any rate that is what he explained to me," I said hastily while the lawyer rubbed his long ultra's nose and sighed.
- An extremist, especially an ultranationalist.
- 2005 December 29, “Foreign ultra killed, three injured in J&K”, in The Times of India, retrieved 21 Apr. 2009:
- Five militants were nabbed while four ultras of Harkat-ul-Jehad-e-Islami (HuJI) gave themselves up.
- (soccer) An especially devoted football fan, typically associated with the intimidating use of extremist slogans, pyrotechnics and sometimes hooligan violence.
- 2012, ALINA BERNSTEIN, Neil Blain, Sport, Media, Culture: Global and Local Dimensions, Routledge, →ISBN, page 183:
- A similar view is expressed by a Turin supporter in Segre's study, but in this case it is more specifically addressed to how powerful teams, such as Juventus, get preferential treatment in reports on the negative aspects of the ultras world.
- 2013, Richard Guilianotti, Football, Violence and Social Identity, Routledge, →ISBN, page 77:
- If a member of an official football club can be said to be a citizen of the football world, an ultra has to be considered as a militant.
- 2015, Jamie Cleland, A Sociology of Football in a Global Context, Routledge, →ISBN, page 30:
- Although the intention initially was to distribute tickets and arrange travel to away matches, ultras quickly became actively organised and developed an overtly passionate cultural and political identity inside each curva
- (athletics) An ultramarathon.
- 2008, Rachel Toor, Personal Record: A Love Affair with Running, Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 69:
- I've done more than forty marathons and ultras and have won a handful of small boutiquey races in mountainous, out-of-the-way places: the foothills of the Sierra Nevada; Mount Mitchell, North Carolina; Bozeman, Montana; and, on the third day of a 100-mile stage race, the Mount Everest Challenge Marathon in the Himalayas.
- (climbing) An ultra-prominent peak.
- 2008, Susan Joy Paul, Climbing Colorado's Mountains, Guilford, CT: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 141:
- Blanca Peak is one of just three ultra-prominence peaks, or “ultras,” in the state and the highpoint of the Sierra Blanca Range, a massif that includes ranked 14ers Ellingwood Point, Little Bear Peak, and Mount Lindsey.
- (usually capitalized) Code name used by British codebreakers during World War 2 for decrypted information gained from the enemy.
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[edit]Finnish
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[edit]Noun
[edit]ultra
- (aviation) Ellipsis of ultrakevyt (“ultralight”). (aircraft that weighs very little)
- Ellipsis of ultraäänitutkimus.
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of ultra (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | ultra | ultrat | |
| genitive | ultran | ultrien | |
| partitive | ultraa | ultria | |
| illative | ultraan | ultriin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | ultra | ultrat | |
| accusative | nom. | ultra | ultrat |
| gen. | ultran | ||
| genitive | ultran | ultrien ultrain rare | |
| partitive | ultraa | ultria | |
| inessive | ultrassa | ultrissa | |
| elative | ultrasta | ultrista | |
| illative | ultraan | ultriin | |
| adessive | ultralla | ultrilla | |
| ablative | ultralta | ultrilta | |
| allative | ultralle | ultrille | |
| essive | ultrana | ultrina | |
| translative | ultraksi | ultriksi | |
| abessive | ultratta | ultritta | |
| instructive | — | ultrin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Synonyms
[edit]- (aircraft): ultrakevyt, ultrakevyt lentokone, UL-kone
Further reading
[edit]- “ultra”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin ultrā. Doublet of outre.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]ultra (plural ultras)
Noun
[edit]ultra m or f by sense (plural ultras)
- extremist
- (historical) an ultra-royalist during the Bourbon Restoration period in France
Further reading
[edit]- “ultra”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Ido
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English ultra, French outre, Italian oltre, Spanish ultra.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]ultra
- ultra: beyond due limit
- further, additional
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Progreso III (in Ido), 1910–1911, page 90
- Progreso V (in Ido), 1912–1913, page 593
- Progreso VII (in Ido), 1914, page 481
Latin
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From uls + -ter + -ā (adverb ending). See also citrā, intrā, extrā.
The accusative is from the pre-PIE directional.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈul.traː/, [ˈʊɫ̪t̪räː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈul.tra/, [ˈul̪t̪rä]
Preposition
[edit]ultrā (+ accusative)
Adverb
[edit]ultrā (not comparable)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “ultra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ultra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ultra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to pass the limit: ultra modum progredi
- to pass the limit: ultra modum progredi
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “ultra”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German)
Anagrams
[edit]Romanian
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]ultra m or f or n (indeclinable)
Declension
[edit]| invariable | singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | ultra | ultra | ultra | ultra | |||
| definite | — | — | — | — | ||||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | ultra | ultra | ultra | ultra | |||
| definite | — | — | — | — | ||||
Spanish
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]ultra m or f (masculine and feminine plural ultras)
- extreme
- far-right
- 2023 June 20, Eliona Rakipaj, “Una lona de Vox en el centro de Madrid propone tirar a la basura el feminismo, el colectivo LGTBIQ+ y la Agenda 2030”, in El País[3]:
- Finalmente, se termina preguntando si el líder del PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, ha asumido el discurso del partido ultra a raíz de los pactos que se han dado en ayuntamientos y algunas comunidades autónomas.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Adverb
[edit]ultra
- (obsolete) furthermore, in addition, moreover
- Synonym: además
Noun
[edit]ultra m or f by sense (plural ultras)
Further reading
[edit]- “ultra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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