supra

Adverb

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:

     Set aside the very recent #MeToo discussion, which as noted supra is deserved and should actually influence how we read his work.

See also

• super-

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.

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.

Usage notes

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

Antonyms

• īnfrā

Derived terms

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

Related terms

• super

Synonyms

• (more than): amplius, plus

Antonyms

• īnfrā

Derived terms

• suprā caput sum (I am close at hand)

Descendants