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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Latin infra (“below”).
Adverb
[edit]infra (not comparable)
- (law) Discussed later.
Antonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]infra (countable and uncountable, plural infras)
- (civil engineering, computing, informal) Clipping of infrastructure.
- 2005, Kyung-Bae Chang et al., “Meteorological Phenomena Measurement System Using the Wireless Network”, in Rajiv Khosla, Robert J. Howlett, Lakhmi C. Jain, editors, Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, , page 861:
- However, as the nations 70% is[sic] covered with mountains, gathering of the meteorological information of particular regions (mountains, canyons, islands etc) by wired transmission system is difficult and it costs a lot of money. This is one of the obstacles of the construction of an infra for the prevention of disasters caused by meteorological changes.
- 2012, T. Mäkeläinen, J. Hyvärinen, J. Peura, “BIM practices and challenges framed – an approach to systemic change management”, in Gudni Gudnason, Raimar Scherer, editors, eWork and eBusiness in Architecture, Engineering and Construction, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 498:
- In this paper we focus on the context of infra construction and development – the problem being: lack of relevant tools for management of BIM [building information modelling] implementation actions.
- 2014, Yoojin Lim, Eunmi Choi, “Mobile Cloud Computing Architectural Design Taxonomy toward the ‘Cloud Computing in Hand’ Era”, in Young-Sik Jeong et al., editors, Ubiquitous Information Technologies and Applications, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, , page 519:
- Technologies in cloud computing have become mature in the infra systems and cloud server-level service providers, which have kept the infra system technologies as the data centers, server clusters, virtualization, service providers by extending services of Private Cloud.
- 2015 April 2, James Somers, quoting Mark Zuckerberg, “Toolkits for the Mind”, in MIT Technology Review[1]:
- (Last year Zuckerberg announced a new engineering slogan: “Move fast with stable infra,” using the hacker shorthand for the infrastructure that keeps the site running.)
Anagrams
[edit]Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]infra (informal)
- infra (infrastructure)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of infra (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | infra | infrat | |
genitive | infran | infrojen | |
partitive | infraa | infroja | |
illative | infraan | infroihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | infra | infrat | |
accusative | nom. | infra | infrat |
gen. | infran | ||
genitive | infran | infrojen infrain rare | |
partitive | infraa | infroja | |
inessive | infrassa | infroissa | |
elative | infrasta | infroista | |
illative | infraan | infroihin | |
adessive | infralla | infroilla | |
ablative | infralta | infroilta | |
allative | infralle | infroille | |
essive | infrana | infroina | |
translative | infraksi | infroiksi | |
abessive | infratta | infroitta | |
instructive | — | infroin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “infra”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Adverb
[edit]infra
Noun
[edit]infra m (plural infras)
- infra (infrastructure)
Further reading
[edit]- “infra”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Istriot
[edit]Preposition
[edit]infra
- among
- 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 40:
- Ti me pari oûna dea infra li dai,
- You seem to me a goddess among the gods,
Italian
[edit]Adverb
[edit]infra
- Only used in vedi infra
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb contracted from the ablative īnferā (parte), of īnferus. Compare Faliscan 𐌉𐌅𐌓𐌀 (ifra), Oscan 𐌇𐌖𐌍𐌕𐌓𐌖𐌔 (huntrus), Umbrian 𐌇𐌏𐌍𐌃𐌓𐌀 (hondra).
The accusative is from the adverbial derivation.
Pronunciation
[edit](Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈin.fraː/, [ˈĩːfräː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈin.fra/, [ˈiɱfrä]
Adverb
[edit]īnfrā (not comparable)
Antonyms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Preposition
[edit]īnfrā (+ accusative)
Antonyms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- > Friulian: fra (inherited)
- Istriot: infra
- > Italian: fra (inherited)
- Judeo-Italian: אֵינְפֵֿירַה (enfera)
- Venetian: infrà
- → English: infra- (learned)
- → French: infra- (learned)
- → Indonesian: infra- (learned)
- → Italian: infra- (learned)
- → Dutch: infra- (learned)
- → Portuguese: infra- (learned)
- → Spanish: infra- (learned)
- ⇒ Finnish: infra- (internationalism)
References
[edit]- “infra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “infra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- infra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- infra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to feel superior to the affairs of life: res humanas infra se positas arbitrari
- to consider a thing beneath one's dignity: aliquid infra se ducere or infra se positum arbitrari
- as I said above: ut supra (opp. infra) diximus, dictum est
- to feel superior to the affairs of life: res humanas infra se positas arbitrari
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- Finnish clippings
- Finnish 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Finnish/infrɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/infrɑ/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish informal terms
- Finnish kala-type nominals
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