ultra

See also: ultra- and ultrà

English

Etymology

From Latin ultra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʌltɹə/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Adjective

ultra (comparative more ultra, superlative most ultra)

1. Extreme; far beyond the norm; fanatical; uncompromising.

   an ultra reformer; ultra measures

Noun

ultra (plural ultras)

1. An ultraroyalist in France.
   • 1828, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter XVI, in Pelham; or, The Adventures of a Gentleman. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 729841413, page 114:

     Her soirées were among the most agreeable at Paris—she united all the rank and talent to be found in the ultra party, for she professed to be quite a female Mæcenas; […]

   • 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.

2. An extremist, especially an ultranationalist.
   • 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.

3. (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

4. (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.

5. (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.

6. (usually capitalised) Code name used by British codebreakers during World War 2 for decrypted information gained from the enemy.

Related terms

• ulterior
• ultimate
• ultra-

Anagrams

• lutar

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈultrɑ/, [ˈult̪rɑ]
• Rhymes: -ultrɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ult‧ra

Noun

ultra

1. (aviation) ultralight (aircraft that weighs very little)
2. Short for ultraäänitutkimus.

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 ultrainrare
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
instructive		—	ultrin
abessive		ultratta	ultritta
comitative		—	ultrineen

Possessive forms of ultra (type koira)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	ultrani	ultramme
2nd person	ultrasi	ultranne
3rd person	ultransa

Synonyms

• (aircraft): ultrakevyt, ultrakevyt lentokone, UL-kone

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /yl.tʁa/

• Audio

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Adjective

ultra (plural ultras)

1. ultra, extreme

Noun

ultra m or f by sense (plural ultras)

1. extremist
2. (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.

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Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English ultra, French outre, Italian oltre, Spanish ultra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈul.tra/

Adjective

ultra

1. ultra: beyond due limit
2. further, additional

Derived terms

• ultre (“besides, further, moreover, in addition”)
• ultre ke (“besides”)

 

References

• Progreso III (in Ido), 1910–1911, page 90
• Progreso V (in Ido), 1912–1913, page 593
• Progreso VII (in Ido), 1914, page 481

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Latin

Etymology

From uls + -ter + -ā (adverb). See also citrā, intrā, extrā.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈul.traː/, [ˈʊɫ̪t̪räː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈul.tra/, [ˈul̪t̪rä]

Preposition

ultrā (+ accusative)

1. beyond

Adverb

ultrā (not comparable)

1. beyond, further

   Synonym: ultrō

   Antonyms: citrā, hinc

2. additionally, besides

Descendants

• → English: ultra
• Franco-Provençal: utre
• French: outre
• Friulian: oltri
• Italian: oltre, oltra
• >? Sicilian: urtra
• Occitan: oltra
• Portuguese: ultra
• Spanish: ultra
• From ab + ultra:
  • Lombard: autra, aultra, avultra
  • Piedmontese: éutra

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
    
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “ultra”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German)

Anagrams

• lutra

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Romanian

Etymology

From French ultra.

Adjective

ultra m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. ultra, extreme

Declension

Declension of ultra (invariable)

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	ultra		ultra	ultra	ultra
	definite	—		—	—	—
genitive/ dative	indefinite	ultra		ultra	ultra	ultra
	definite	—		—	—	—

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈultɾa/ [ˈul̪.t̪ɾa]
• Rhymes: -ultɾa
• Hyphenation: ul‧tra

Adjective

ultra (plural ultras)

1. extreme

Noun

ultra m or f (plural ultras)

1. far-right extremist
2. hooligan, hardened fan

Further reading

• “ultra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014