ultimatum

See also: Ultimatum and ultimátum

English

Etymology

From Latin ultimatus (“late, last final”), from Latin ultimus (“extreme, last, furthest, farthest, final”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌʌl.tɪˈmeɪ.təm/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

ultimatum (plural ultimatums or ultimata)

1. A final statement of terms or conditions made by one party to another, especially one that expresses a threat of reprisal or war.

Derived terms

• ultimative

Related terms

• ulterior
• ultimate
• ultra
• ultra-

Translations

a final statement of terms or conditions made by one party to another

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: بِلَاغ نِهَائِيّ‎ (bilāḡ nihāʔiyy)
• Armenian: վերջնագիր (hy) (verǰnagir)
• Basque: ultimatum (eu)
• Belarusian: ультыма́тум m (ulʹtymátum)
• Bulgarian: ултима́тум (bg) m (ultimátum)
• Catalan: ultimàtum (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 最後通牒／最后通牒 (zh) (zuìhòu tōngdié), 哀的美敦書／哀的美敦书 (zh) (āidìměidūn shū) (dated)

• Czech: ultimátum (cs) n
• Danish: ultimatum (da) n
• Dutch: ultimatum (nl) n
• Esperanto: ultimato (eo), ultimatumo
• Estonian: ultimaatum
• Finnish: uhkavaatimus (fi), ultimaatumi (fi)
• French: ultimatum (fr) m
• Galician: ultimato m
• Georgian: ულტიმატუმი (ulṭimaṭumi)
• German: Ultimatum (de) n
• Greek: τελεσίγραφο (el) n (telesígrafo)
• Hebrew: אוּלְטִימָטוּם‎ (he)
• Hindi: अल्टिमेटम (hi) m (alṭimeṭam), अंतिमेत्थम् (hi) (antimettham)
• Hungarian: ultimátum (hu)
• Icelandic: úrslitakostir m pl
• Indonesian: ultimatum (id)
• Italian: ultimatum (it)
• Japanese: 最後通牒 (さいごつうちょう, saigo tsūchō), 最後通告 (さいごつうこく, saigo tsūkoku)
• Kazakh: ультиматум (ultimatum), кескен серт (kesken sert), үзілді-кесілді талап (üzıldı-kesıldı talap)
• Korean: 최후통첩(最後通牒) (ko) (choehutongcheop)
• Latvian: ultimāts m
• Lithuanian: ultimatumas m
• Macedonian: ултима́тум m (ultimátum)
• Malay: kata dua
• Malayalam: അന്ത്യശാസനം (ml) (antyaśāsanaṃ)
• Nepali: अल्टिमेटम (ne) (alṭimeṭam)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ultimatum (no) n

• Persian: اولتیماتوم‎ (fa) (ultimâtom)
• Polish: ultimatum (pl) n
• Portuguese: ultimato m
• Romanian: ultimatum (ro) n
• Russian: ультима́тум (ru) m (ulʹtimátum)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ултима́тум m

  Roman: ultimátum (sh) m

• Slovak: ultimátum n
• Slovene: ultimat m
• Spanish: ultimátum (es) m
• Swedish: ultimatum (sv) n
• Tajik: ултиматум (ultimatum)
• Thai: คำขาด (kam-​kàat), คำสั่งสุดท้าย (kam-​sàng-​sùt-​táai)
• Turkish: ültimatom (tr)
• Ukrainian: ультима́тум (uk) m (ulʹtymátum)
• Vietnamese: tối hậu thư (vi) (最後書)

See also

• ultimatum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ultimatum in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Cebuano

Etymology

From English ultimatum, from Latin ultimatus (“late, last final”), from Latin ultimus (“extreme, last, furthest, farthest, final”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ul‧ti‧ma‧tum

Noun

ultimatum

1. an ultimatum

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ultimaːtɔm/, [ultˢiˈmæːtˢɔm]

Noun

ultimatum n (singular definite ultimatummet, plural indefinite ultimatummer)

1. ultimatum

Inflection

Declension of ultimatum

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ultimatum	ultimatummet	ultimatummer	ultimatummerne
genitive	ultimatums	ultimatummets	ultimatummers	ultimatummernes

Derived terms

• ultimativ

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin ultimatum, from ultimatus (“late, last final”), from ultimō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌʏl.tiˈmaː.tʏm/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ul‧ti‧ma‧tum
• Rhymes: -aːtʏm

Noun

ultimatum n (plural ultimatums or ultimata, diminutive ultimatumpje n)

1. ultimatum

Derived terms

• ultimatief

Descendants

• Afrikaans: ultimatum
• → Indonesian: ultimatum

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /yl.ti.ma.tɔm/
• Rhymes: -ɔm
• Homophone: ultimatums

Noun

ultimatum m (plural ultimatums)

1. ultimatum

Descendants

• → Turkish: ültimatom

Further reading

• “ultimatum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

ultimātum

1. accusative supine of ultimō

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

ultimatum n (definite singular ultimatumet, indefinite plural ultimata or ultimatumer, definite plural ultimataene or ultimatumene)

1. an ultimatum

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

ultimatum n (definite singular ultimatumet, indefinite plural ultimatum, definite plural ultimatuma)

1. an ultimatum

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ultimātum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ul.tiˈma.tum/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -atum
• Syllabification: ul‧ti‧ma‧tum

Noun

ultimatum n

1. ultimatum

Declension

Declension of ultimatum

	singular	plural
nominative	ultimatum	ultimata
genitive	ultimatum	ultimatów
dative	ultimatum	ultimatom
accusative	ultimatum	ultimata
instrumental	ultimatum	ultimatami
locative	ultimatum	ultimatach
vocative	ultimatum	ultimata

Derived terms

adjective

• ultymatywny

 

Further reading

• ultimatum in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• ultimatum in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French ultimatum.

Noun

ultimatum n (plural ultimatumuri)

1. ultimatum

Declension

Declension of ultimatum

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) ultimatum	ultimatumul	(niște) ultimatumuri	ultimatumurile
genitive/dative	(unui) ultimatum	ultimatumului	(unor) ultimatumuri	ultimatumurilor
vocative	ultimatumule		ultimatumurilor

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ultimǎːtum/
• Hyphenation: ul‧ti‧ma‧tum

Noun

ultimátum m (Cyrillic spelling ултима́тум)

1. ultimatum

Declension

Declension of ultimatum

	singular	plural
nominative	ultimatum	ultimatumi
genitive	ultimatuma	ultimatuma
dative	ultimatumu	ultimatumima
accusative	ultimatum	ultimatume
vocative	ultimatume	ultimatumi
locative	ultimatumu	ultimatumima
instrumental	ultimatumom	ultimatumima

Swedish

Noun

ultimatum n

1. an ultimatum

Declension

Declension of ultimatum
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	ultimatum	ultimatumet	ultimatum	ultimatumen
Genitive	ultimatums	ultimatumets	ultimatums	ultimatumens

Related terms

• ultimat
• ultimativ

References

• ultimatum in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)