ultra-

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See also: ultra and ultrà

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ultrā (beyond).

Pronunciation

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ultra-

  1. Greater than normal quantity or importance, as in ultrasecret.
  2. Beyond, on the far side of, as in ultraviolet.
  3. Beyond, outside of, as in ultrasonic.
  4. Excessively, to an extreme, as in ultramicroscopic, ultra-careful.
    • 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:
      In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […]  The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
  5. (augmentative) intensely, extremely, or exceptional

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Czech

Pronunciation

Prefix

ultra-

  1. ultra-
    ultra- + ‎fialový → ‎ultrafialový

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Further reading

  • ultra-”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935-1957
  • ultra-”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • ultra- in Slovník afixů užívaných v češtině, 2017

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ultrā (beyond).

Pronunciation

Prefix

ultra-

  1. ultra- (beyond, on the far side of; beyond, outside of)
  2. (informal) ultra- (greater than normal quantity or importance, excessively, to an extreme)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ultrā (beyond).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʏl.traː/
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Prefix

ultra-

  1. ultra- (beyond, on the far side of; beyond, outside of)

Finnish

Etymology

Internationalism (see English ultra-), ultimately from Latin ultrā.

Pronunciation

Prefix

ultra-

  1. ultra-

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French

Prefix

ultra-

  1. ultra-

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German

Etymology

From Latin ultrā.

Pronunciation

Prefix

ultra-

  1. ultra-

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Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ultrā (beyond).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: ult‧ra

Prefix

ultra-

  1. ultra-

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References

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ultrā (beyond).

Prefix

ultra-

  1. ultra-

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin ultrā (beyond).

Prefix

ultra-

  1. ultra-

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Norwegian Bokmål

Prefix

ultra-

  1. ultra- (as for English)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Prefix

ultra-

  1. ultra- (as for English)

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin ultrā.

Pronunciation

Prefix

ultra-

  1. ultra-

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin ultrā.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ultɾa/
  • Syllabification: ul‧tra-

Prefix

ultra-

  1. ultra-

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