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See also: supra-
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Adverb
[edit]supra (not comparable)
- (law) Used to indicate that the current citation is from the same source as the previous one.
- Antonym: infra
- 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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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]supra (plural supras)
- Clipping of supranational.
Etymology 3
[edit]Noun
[edit]supra (plural supras)
- 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.
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Adjective
[edit]supra (accusative singular supran, plural supraj, accusative plural suprajn)
French
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Adverb
[edit]supra
Further reading
[edit]- “supra”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Guinea-Bissau Creole
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Portuguese soprar. Cognate with Kabuverdianu sopra.
Verb
[edit]supra
- to blow
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Latin suprād, superā; further from Proto-Italic *superād, cognate to Umbrian 𐌔𐌖𐌁𐌓𐌀 (subra).
The accusative is from the adverbial derivation.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈsu.praː/, [ˈs̠ʊpräː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsu.pra/, [ˈsuːprä]
Adverb
[edit]suprā (not comparable)
- (of place) above, on the top, on the upper side
- (of time) before, previously, formerly
- Quae supra scripta est.
- Which was previously written.
- (of number or measure) more, beyond, over
Usage notes
[edit]- When pertaining to time it especially refers to any thing previously said or written.
Antonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- suprā quam, (rarer) suprā quod (above or beyond what, more than)
Related terms
[edit]Preposition
[edit]suprā (+ accusative)
- (of location) over, above, beyond, on top of, upon
- Supra naturam.
- Above nature.
- (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)
- (of number, degree, or quantity) over, above, beyond, more than
- (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
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[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- suprā caput sum (I am close at hand)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “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
- as I said above: ut supra (opp. infra) diximus, dictum est
Portuguese
[edit]Verb
[edit]supra
- inflection of suprir:
Sardinian
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