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supra

See also: supra-

English edit

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from Latin suprā.

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supra (not comparable)

  1. (law) Used to indicate that the current citation is from the same source as the previous one.
    Antonym: infra
  2. Above, mentioned earlier in a text.
    • 2018 September 15, Julius Taranto, “On Outgrowing David Foster Wallace”, in Los Angeles Review of Books‎[1]:
      Set aside the very recent #MeToo discussion, which as noted supra is deserved and should actually influence how we read his work.
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supra (plural supras)

  1. Clipping of supranational.
    • 2021, Alexander During, Fixed Income Trading and Risk Management: The Complete Guide, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 147:
      This segment of issuers is known as the supranationals, or supras.

Etymology 3 edit

 
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From Georgian სუფრა (supra).

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supra (plural supras)

  1. A traditional Georgian feast.
    • 2006, Mathijs Pelkmans, Defending the Border, part II, chapter v, 125:
      When I met Bejan and Enver at the supra, they enthusiastically told me that I was about to experience true Georgian hospitality.
    • 2011, Paul Manning, Zaza Shatirishvili, “The Exoticism and Eroticism of the City”, in Tsypylma Darieva et al., editors, Urban Spaces after Socialism, 279:
      We might add here the tendency of kinto poetry to be associated with articulating and eliciting love and desire (whether heterosexual, homoerotic or homosexual), as well as the noted homoeroticism of the supra ritual itself with which the kinto is associated.
    • 2013, Adrian Brisku, Bittersweet Europe, chapter i, 14:
      The supra became the symbol of hospitality manifested by a particular way of eating, drinking and feasting in which guests are treated with outmost[sic] attention.

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supra (accusative singular supran, plural supraj, accusative plural suprajn)

  1. upper

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supra

  1. supra

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Etymology edit

From Portuguese soprar. Cognate with Kabuverdianu sopra.

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supra

  1. to blow

Latin edit

Etymology edit

From Old Latin suprād, superā. Compare Oscan supra, Umbrian subra.

The accusative is from the adverbial derivation.

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suprā (not comparable)

  1. (of place) above, on the top, on the upper side
  2. (of time) before, previously, formerly
    Quae supra scripta est.
    Which was previously written.
  3. (of number or measure) more, beyond, over

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  • When pertaining to time it especially refers to any thing previously said or written.

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suprā (+ accusative)

  1. (of location) over, above, beyond, on top of, upon
    Supra naturam.
    Above nature.
  2. (of time) before
    Supra septingentesimum annum.
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    Paulo supra hanc memoriam.
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  3. (of number, degree, or quantity) over, above, beyond, more than
  4. (of employment or office) over, in authority over, in charge of
    Quos supra somnum habebat.
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  • “supra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “supra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • supra 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)
  • supra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • as I said above: ut supra (opp. infra) diximus, dictum est

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Verb edit

supra

  1. inflection of suprir:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

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Etymology edit

From Latin suprā.

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supra

  1. on, on top of, above
    Synonyms: super, supre
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