# supra
## English
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin suprā.

#### Adverb

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

##### Related terms

* vide supra

#### See also

* super-

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

supra (plural supras)
* 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)
* 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 attention.

### Anagrams

* praus

## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

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

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adverb

supra
* supra

### Further reading

* “supra”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Guinea-Bissau Creole
### Etymology

From Portuguese soprar. Cognate with Kabuverdianu sopra.

### Verb

supra
* 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

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈsu.praː/, [ˈs̠ʊpräː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈsu.pra/, [ˈsuːprä]

### Adverb

suprā (comparative superius, no superlative)
* (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

* 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

### Preposition

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

* (more than): amplius, plus

#### Antonyms

* īnfrā

#### 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
* Romanian: asupra, deasupra
* Romansch: 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’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, London: Macmillan and Co. as I said above: ut supra (opp. infra) diximus, dictum est

## Portuguese
### Verb

supra
* inflection of suprir:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Sardinian
### Alternative forms

* subra

### Etymology

From Latin suprā.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /supra/

### Preposition

supra
* on, on top of, above
    Synonyms: super, supre