Borrowed fromLatinsuprā.
supra (notcomparable)
- (law)Used to indicate that the current citation is from a source cited earlier in the text.
- Antonym:infra
- Above,mentioned earlier in a text.
2018 September 15, Julius Taranto, “On Outgrowing David Foster Wallace”, inLos Angeles Review of Books[1]:Set aside the very recent #MeToo discussion, which as notedsupra is deserved and should actually influence how we read his work.
supra (pluralsupras)
- Clipping ofsupranational.
2021, Alexander During,Fixed Income Trading and Risk Management: The Complete Guide, John Wiley & Sons,→ISBN,page147:This segment of issuers is known as the supranationals, orsupras.
FromGeorgianსუფრა(supra).
supra (pluralsupras)
- AtraditionalGeorgianfeast.
2006, Mathijs Pelkmans,Defending the Border, part II, chapter v,125:When I met Bejan and Enver at thesupra, 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 Darievaet 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 thesupra ritual itself with which the kinto is associated.
2013, Adrian Brisku,Bittersweet Europe, chapter i,14:Thesupra became the symbol of hospitality manifested by a particular way of eating, drinking and feasting in which guests are treated with outmost[sic] attention.
supra (accusative singularsupran,pluralsupraj,accusative pluralsuprajn)
- upper
supra
- supra
Guinea-Bissau Creole
[edit]FromPortuguesesoprar. Cognate withKabuverdianusopra.
supra
- toblow
FromOld Latinsuprād,superā; further fromProto-Italic*superād, cognate toUmbrian𐌔𐌖𐌁𐌓𐌀(subra).
The accusative is from the adverbial derivation.
suprā (comparativesuperius,superlativesummēorsuprēmē)
- (of place)above, on thetop, on theupper side
- (of time)before,previously,formerly
Quaesupra scripta est.- Which waspreviously written.
- (of number or measure)more,beyond,over
- When pertaining to time it especially refers to any thing previously said or written.
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)
Paulosupra 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, inauthority over, incharge of
Quossupra somnum habebat.- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- “supra”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “supra”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "supra", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “supra”, inGaffiot, 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
supra
- inflection ofsuprir:
- first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
- third-personsingularimperative
FromLatinsuprā.
supra
- on,on top of,above
- Synonyms:super,supre
