supra

supra

See also: supra-

English

Etymology 1

    Borrowed from Latin suprā.

    Adverb

    supra (not comparable)

    1. (law) Used to indicate that the current citation is from a source cited earlier in the text.
      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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    Etymology 2

    Noun

    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

    From Georgian სუფრა (supra).

    Noun

    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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    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈsupra/
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    • Rhymes: -upra
    • Syllabification: su‧pra

    Adjective

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

    1. upper

    Further reading

    French

    Pronunciation

    Adverb

    supra

    1. supra

    Further reading

    Guinea-Bissau Creole

    Etymology

    From Portuguese soprar. Cognate with Kabuverdianu sopra.

    Verb

    supra

    1. to blow

    Latin

    Etymology

      From Old Latin suprād, superā; further from Proto-Italic *superād, cognate to Umbrian 𐌔𐌖𐌁𐌓𐌀 (subra).

      The accusative is from the adverbial derivation.

      Pronunciation

      Adverb

      suprā (comparative superius, superlative summē or suprēmē)

      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

      Usage notes

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

      Antonyms

      Derived terms

      • suprā quam, (rarer) suprā quod (above or beyond what, more than)

      Preposition

      suprā (+ accusative)

      1. (of location) over, above, beyond, on top of, upon
        Supra naturam.
        Above nature.
      2. (of time) before
        Supra septingentesimum annum.
        (please add an English translation of this usage example)
        Paulo supra hanc memoriam.
        (please add an English translation of this usage example)
      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.
        (please add an English translation of this usage example)

      Synonyms

      Antonyms

      Derived terms

      • suprā caput sum (I am close at hand)

      Descendants

      • Aromanian: disuprã, prisuprã
      • Dalmatian: saupra, de zupra
      • English: supra
      • Friulian: sore, disore
      • Italian: sopra, sovra
      • Judeo-Italian: סוּפֵירַה (superah /⁠supera⁠/)
      • Romanian: asupra, deasupra
      • Romansh: sura, soura
      • Sicilian: supra, sùpira
      • Venetan: sovra, sora, desora

      References

      • 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, 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

      Portuguese

      Verb

      supra

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

      Sardinian

      Alternative forms

      Etymology

      From Latin suprā.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /supra/

      Preposition

      supra

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