ultra-
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Borrowed from Latin ultrā (“beyond”).
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ultra-
- Greater than normal quantity or importance, as in ultrasecret.
- Beyond, on the far side of, as in ultraviolet.
- Beyond, outside of, as in ultrasonic.
- Excessively, to an extreme, as in ultramicroscopic, ultra-careful.
- 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly[1], 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.
- (augmentative) intensely, extremely, or exceptional
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- Productive in all senses. The hyphen is included when the use is relatively unfamiliar, as in ultra-careful.
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- (beyond): trans-, para-, hyper-, out-, extra-, preter-
- (on the far side of): trans-
- (excessively): over-, hyper-, ana-
- (augmentative): super-, supra-, hyper-, uber-, macro-, arch-, over-, mega-, maxi-, giga-, -zilla, grand
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greater than normal quantity or importance
beyond, on the far side of
beyond, outside of
excessively, to an extreme
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ultra-
- ultra-
- ultra- + fialový → ultrafialový
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Borrowed from Latin ultrā (“beyond”).
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Borrowed from Latin ultrā (“beyond”).
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ultra-
- ultra- (beyond, on the far side of; beyond, outside of)
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Internationalism (see English ultra-), ultimately from Latin ultrā.
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- “ultra-”, 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 2023-07-04
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- In political buzzwords (like ultrakonservativ), this suffix is derogatory.
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Borrowed from Latin ultrā (“beyond”).[1]
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- ^ 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
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Borrowed from Latin ultrā (“beyond”).
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ultra-
- ultra- (as for English)
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- “ultra-” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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ultra-
- ultra- (as for English)
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- “ultra-” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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- “ultra-”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014