infra
See also: infra-
English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editBorrowed from Latin infra (“below”).
Adverb
editinfra (not comparable)
- (law) Discussed later.
Antonyms
editDerived terms
editRelated terms
editEtymology 2
editNoun
editinfra (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.)
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editFinnish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editinfra (informal)
- infra (infrastructure)
Declension
editInflection 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
editcompounds
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
editPronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Adverb
editinfra
Noun
editinfra m (plural infras)
- infra (infrastructure)
Further reading
edit- “infra”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Istriot
editPreposition
editinfra
- 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
editAdverb
editinfra
- Only used in vedi infra
Anagrams
editLatin
editEtymology
editAdverb contracted from the ablative īnferā (parte), of īnferus. Compare Faliscan infra, Oscan huntrus, Umbrian 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
editīnfrā (not comparable)
Antonyms
editDescendants
editPreposition
editīnfrā (+ accusative)
Antonyms
editDescendants
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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