# ultimate
## English
### Etymology

* From Medieval Latin ultimātus (“furthest, last”), perfect passive participle of ultimō (“to come to an end”) (see -ate (1,2 and 3)), from ultimus (“last, final”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). See ultra-.
* (ultimate frisbee): The sport was renamed to avoid the use of the Frisbee trademark.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈʌltɪmɪt/, /ˈʌltɪmət/
* (US) IPA: /ˈʌltəmɪt/
* Audio (UK):(file)
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪt

### Adjective

ultimate (comparative more ultimate, superlative most ultimate)
* (not comparable) Final; last in a series.
** 1677, Robert Plot, “Of the Heavens and Air”, in The natural history of Oxford-shire: Being an Essay Toward the Natural History of England‎, page 15:[…] they [the sounds of an echo] next strike the ultimate secondary object, then the penultimate and antepenultimate; […]
* (not comparable, of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance.
* Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.
    the ultimate pleasure
    the ultimate disappointment
** 1813, Henry Ware, Noah Worcester, The Christian Disciple and Theological Review‎, Boston, Cummings and Hilliard, pages 227-228:Not that we consider this as the most desirable channel in which these affections should be made to flow. The good that is done in this way, is by no means in proportion to the good that is intended. Injudicious charity has probably been productive of far more ultimate evil, than the coldest and most indiscriminating selfishness.
** 1839, Thomas Bartlett, Memoirs of the Life, Character and Writings of Joseph Butler‎, John W. Parker, page 264:"But if Berkeley be clear in conveying his doctrine, the matter of the exposition will be found not the less to press upon the powers of the firmest intellect. There are diligent students of modern metaphysical literature, who are little disciplined for the difficulties of disquisition into which a thorough examination of his views would lead them. His characteristic system depends little on mere classification, little on the more obvious results of observation. It rests on a basis of intense self-contemplation, which, to be prosecuted to any purpose, must be prosecuted with extreme perseverance. It questions the conscious being on points the most ultimate in his nature, — points which, though they be but facts of consciousness, we hesitate not to say, there are many minds wholly unable to make the objects of reflection."
** 1843, Artizan Club (London, England), The Artizan‎, Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, page 106:"From the foregoing observations we deduce the interesting fact that acetic acid, hitherto known only as a product of the oxidation of organic materials, can be built up by almost direct synthesis from its elements. Sulphide of carbon, chloride of carbon, and chlorine, are the agents which, along with water, accomplish the transformation of carbon into acetic acid. If we could only transform acetic acid into alcohol, and out of the latier could obtain sugar and starch, then we should be enabled to build up these common vegetable principles, by the so-called artificial method, from their most ultimate elements."
** 1867, The North American Review‎, O. Everett, page 634:Dr. Bucknill declares that the growth and renovation of nerve-cells in the brain "are the most ultimate conditions of mind with which we are accquainted"; but instead of inferring from this that we know very little indeed about the mind, he concludes that thought, recollection, and reason are products of "the activity of the vesicular neurine of the brain."
** 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
* Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
* (not comparable) That will happen at some time; eventual.
* (not comparable) Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
** 1825, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character on the Several Grounds of Prudence, Morality, and Religion: […], London: […] Thomas Davison, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we cannot rationally contradict
* (not comparable) Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.
    an ultimate constituent of matter

#### Synonyms

* (final): See Thesaurus:final
* (most extreme): utmost, uttermost

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “w.r.t. causes”): initial, original
* (antonym(s) of “most extreme”): original, derivative

#### Coordinate terms

* (adjectives denoting syllables): penultimate (last but one), antepenultimate (last but two), preantepenultimate (last but three), propreantepenultimate (last but four)

#### Derived terms

* antepenultimate
* pay the ultimate price
* penultimate
* super-ultimate
* ultimateness
* ultimate sacrifice
* ultimate tensile strength

#### Related terms

* ulterior
* ultimatum
* ultra
* ultra-

#### Translations

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### Noun

ultimate (countable and uncountable, plural ultimates)
* The most basic or fundamental of a set of things
* The final or most distant point; the conclusion
* The greatest extremity; the maximum
* (uncountable, sports) Ellipsis of ultimate frisbee/ultimate disc.

#### Translations
### Verb

ultimate (third-person singular simple present ultimates, present participle ultimating, simple past and past participle ultimated)
* (transitive, archaic) To finish; to complete.
** 1869, The New-Jerusalem Magazine, volume 41, page 36:These measures have been carried forward with a zeal and unanimity that warrant the hope we entertain, of ultimating the plans in respect to our Temple, before the next meeting of the Maryland Association.

### Further reading

* “ultimate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “ultimate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* mutilate

## Finnish
### Etymology

From English ultimate.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈultimɑte/, [ˈul̪t̪iˌmɑ̝t̪e̞]
* Rhymes: -ɑte
* Hyphenation: ul‧ti‧ma‧te

### Noun

ultimate
* ultimate frisbee (game)

#### Declension

Possessive forms of ultimate (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
ultimateni
ultimateni
accusative
nom.
ultimateni
ultimateni
gen.
ultimateni
genitive
ultimateni
ultimatejeni ultimateini $^{rare}$
partitive
ultimateani
ultimatejani
inessive
ultimatessani
ultimateissani
elative
ultimatestani
ultimateistani
illative
ultimateeni
ultimateihini
adessive
ultimatellani
ultimateillani
ablative
ultimateltani
ultimateiltani
allative
ultimatelleni
ultimateilleni
essive
ultimatenani
ultimateinani
translative
ultimatekseni
ultimateikseni
abessive
ultimatettani
ultimateittani
instructive
comitative
—ultimateineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
ultimatesi
ultimatesi
accusative
nom.
ultimatesi
ultimatesi
gen.
ultimatesi
genitive
ultimatesi
ultimatejesi ultimateisi $^{rare}$
partitive
ultimateasi
ultimatejasi
inessive
ultimatessasi
ultimateissasi
elative
ultimatestasi
ultimateistasi
illative
ultimateesi
ultimateihisi
adessive
ultimatellasi
ultimateillasi
ablative
ultimateltasi
ultimateiltasi
allative
ultimatellesi
ultimateillesi
essive
ultimatenasi
ultimateinasi
translative
ultimateksesi
ultimateiksesi
abessive
ultimatettasi
ultimateittasi
instructive
comitative
—ultimateinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
ultimatemme
ultimatemme
accusative
nom.
ultimatemme
ultimatemme
gen.
ultimatemme
genitive
ultimatemme
ultimatejemme ultimateimme $^{rare}$
partitive
ultimateamme
ultimatejamme
inessive
ultimatessamme
ultimateissamme
elative
ultimatestamme
ultimateistamme
illative
ultimateemme
ultimateihimme
adessive
ultimatellamme
ultimateillamme
ablative
ultimateltamme
ultimateiltamme
allative
ultimatellemme
ultimateillemme
essive
ultimatenamme
ultimateinamme
translative
ultimateksemme
ultimateiksemme
abessive
ultimatettamme
ultimateittamme
instructive
comitative
—ultimateinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
ultimatenne
ultimatenne
accusative
nom.
ultimatenne
ultimatenne
gen.
ultimatenne
genitive
ultimatenne
ultimatejenne ultimateinne $^{rare}$
partitive
ultimateanne
ultimatejanne
inessive
ultimatessanne
ultimateissanne
elative
ultimatestanne
ultimateistanne
illative
ultimateenne
ultimateihinne
adessive
ultimatellanne
ultimateillanne
ablative
ultimateltanne
ultimateiltanne
allative
ultimatellenne
ultimateillenne
essive
ultimatenanne
ultimateinanne
translative
ultimateksenne
ultimateiksenne
abessive
ultimatettanne
ultimateittanne
instructive
comitative
—ultimateinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
ultimatensa
ultimatensa
accusative
nom.
ultimatensa
ultimatensa
gen.
ultimatensa
genitive
ultimatensa
ultimatejensa ultimateinsa $^{rare}$
partitive
ultimateaan ultimateansa
ultimatejaan ultimatejansa
inessive
ultimatessaan ultimatessansa
ultimateissaan ultimateissansa
elative
ultimatestaan ultimatestansa
ultimateistaan ultimateistansa
illative
ultimateensa
ultimateihinsa
adessive
ultimatellaan ultimatellansa
ultimateillaan ultimateillansa
ablative
ultimateltaan ultimateltansa
ultimateiltaan ultimateiltansa
allative
ultimatelleen ultimatellensa
ultimateilleen ultimateillensa
essive
ultimatenaan ultimatenansa
ultimateinaan ultimateinansa
translative
ultimatekseen ultimateksensa
ultimateikseen ultimateiksensa
abessive
ultimatettaan ultimatettansa
ultimateittaan ultimateittansa
instructive
comitative
—ultimateineen ultimateinensa :

#### Synonyms

* liitokiekkoilu

### Anagrams

* amuletit, amuletti, laitumet, leimattu, leimatut

## Italian
### Etymology 1
#### Verb

ultimate
* inflection of ultimare:
** second-person plural present indicative
** second-person plural imperative

### Etymology 2
#### Participle

ultimate f pl
* feminine plural of ultimato

### Anagrams

* multiate, mutilate

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ul.tiˈmaː.te/, [ʊɫ̪t̪ɪˈmäːt̪ɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ul.tiˈma.te/, [ul̪t̪iˈmäːt̪e]

### Verb

ultimāte
* second-person plural present active imperative of ultimō

## Spanish
### Verb

ultimate
* second-person singular voseo imperative of ultimar combined with te