ultra
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ultra.
Pronunciation
Adjective
ultra (comparative more ultra, superlative most ultra)
Noun
ultra (plural ultras)
- An ultraroyalist in France.
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 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.
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 37:
- An extremist.
- 2005, "Foreign ultra killed, three injured in J&K," The Times of India, 29 Dec. (retrieved 21 Apr. 2009):
- Five militants were nabbed while four ultras of Harkat-ul-Jehad-e-Islami (HuJI) gave themselves up.
- 2005, "Foreign ultra killed, three injured in J&K," The Times of India, 29 Dec. (retrieved 21 Apr. 2009):
- (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
- 2012, ALINA BERNSTEIN, Neil Blain, Sport, Media, Culture: Global and Local Dimensions, Routledge →ISBN, page 183
- (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 capitalised) Code name used by British codebreakers during World War 2 for decrypted information gained from the enemy.
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Finnish
Noun
ultra
- (aviation) ultralight (aircraft that weighs very little)
Declension
| 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
- (aircraft): ultrakevyt, ultrakevyt lentokone, UL-kone
French
Pronunciation
Adjective
ultra (plural ultras)
Noun
ultra m or f (plural ultras)
- extremist
- (historical) an ultra-royalist during the Bourbon Restoration period in France
Further reading
- “ultra”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Ido
Etymology
Borrowed from English ultra, French outre, Italian oltre, Spanish ultra.
Pronunciation
Adjective
ultra
- ultra: beyond due limit
- further, additional
Derived terms
References
- Progreso III (in Ido), 1910–1911, page 90
- Progreso V (in Ido), 1912–1913, page 593
- Progreso VII (in Ido), 1914, page 481
Latin
Etymology
From uls + -ter + -ā (adverb). See also citrā, intrā, extrā.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈul.traː/, [ˈʊɫ̪t̪räː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈul.tra/, [ˈul̪t̪rä]
Preposition
ultrā (+ accusative)
Adverb
ultrā (not comparable)
Descendants
References
- “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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to pass the limit: ultra modum progredi
- to pass the limit: ultra modum progredi
Spanish
Adjective
ultra m or f (masculine and feminine plural ultras)
Noun
ultra m or f (plural ultras)
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