# ultra
## English
### Etymology

From Latin ultra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʌltɹə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Adjective

ultra (comparative more ultra, superlative most ultra)
* Extreme; far beyond the norm; fanatical; uncompromising.
    an ultra reformer; ultra measures

### Noun

ultra (plural ultras)
* An ultraroyalist in France.
** 1828, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter XVI, in Pelham; or, The Adventures of a Gentleman. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 114:Her soirées were among the most agreeable at Paris—she united all the rank and talent to be found in the ultra party, for she professed to be quite a female Mæcenas; […]
** 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 37:"At any rate that is what he explained to me," I said hastily while the lawyer rubbed his long ultra's nose and sighed.
* An extremist, especially an ultranationalist.
** 2005 December 29, “Foreign ultra killed, three injured in J&K”, in The Times of India, retrieved 21 Apr. 2009:Five militants were nabbed while four ultras of Harkat-ul-Jehad-e-Islami (HuJI) gave themselves up.
* (soccer) An especially devoted football fan, typically associated with the intimidating use of extremist slogans, pyrotechnics and sometimes hooligan violence.
** 2012, ALINA BERNSTEIN, Neil Blain, Sport, Media, Culture: Global and Local Dimensions, Routledge, →ISBN, page 183:A similar view is expressed by a Turin supporter in Segre's study, but in this case it is more specifically addressed to how powerful teams, such as Juventus, get preferential treatment in reports on the negative aspects of the ultras world.
** 2013, Richard Guilianotti, Football, Violence and Social Identity, Routledge, →ISBN, page 77:If a member of an official football club can be said to be a citizen of the football world, an ultra has to be considered as a militant.
** 2015, Jamie Cleland, A Sociology of Football in a Global Context, Routledge, →ISBN, page 30:Although the intention initially was to distribute tickets and arrange travel to away matches, ultras quickly became actively organised and developed an overtly passionate cultural and political identity inside each curva
* (athletics) An ultramarathon.
** 2008, Rachel Toor, Personal Record: A Love Affair with Running, Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 69:I've done more than forty marathons and ultras and have won a handful of small boutiquey races in mountainous, out-of-the-way places: the foothills of the Sierra Nevada; Mount Mitchell, North Carolina; Bozeman, Montana; and, on the third day of a 100-mile stage race, the Mount Everest Challenge Marathon in the Himalayas.
* (climbing) An ultra-prominent peak.
** 2008, Susan Joy Paul, Climbing Colorado's Mountains, Guilford, CT: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 141:Blanca Peak is one of just three ultra-prominence peaks, or “ultras,” in the state and the highpoint of the Sierra Blanca Range, a massif that includes ranked 14ers Ellingwood Point, Little Bear Peak, and Mount Lindsey.
* (usually capitalized) Code name used by British codebreakers during World War 2 for decrypted information gained from the enemy.

#### Related terms

* ulterior
* ultimate
* ultra-

### Anagrams

* lutar

## Catalan
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ultra.

### Adjective

ultra m or f (masculine and feminine plural ultres)
* extreme

### Noun

ultra m or f by sense (plural ultres)
* extremist

### Preposition

ultra
* in addition to, besides
    Synonyms: demés, de més de, en addició a, sobre

#### Derived terms

* ultra mesura

### Further reading

* “ultra”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

## Finnish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈultrɑ/, [ˈul̪.t̪rɑ̝]
* Rhymes: -ultrɑ
* Hyphenation: ult‧ra

### Noun

ultra
* (aviation) Ellipsis of ultrakevyt (“ultralight”). (aircraft that weighs very little)
* Ellipsis of ultraäänitutkimus.

#### Declension

Possessive forms of ultra (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
ultrani
ultrani
accusative
nom.
ultrani
ultrani
gen.
ultrani
genitive
ultrani
ultrieni ultraini $^{rare}$
partitive
ultraani
ultriani
inessive
ultrassani
ultrissani
elative
ultrastani
ultristani
illative
ultraani
ultriini
adessive
ultrallani
ultrillani
ablative
ultraltani
ultriltani
allative
ultralleni
ultrilleni
essive
ultranani
ultrinani
translative
ultrakseni
ultrikseni
abessive
ultrattani
ultrittani
instructive
comitative
—ultrineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
ultrasi
ultrasi
accusative
nom.
ultrasi
ultrasi
gen.
ultrasi
genitive
ultrasi
ultriesi ultraisi $^{rare}$
partitive
ultraasi
ultriasi
inessive
ultrassasi
ultrissasi
elative
ultrastasi
ultristasi
illative
ultraasi
ultriisi
adessive
ultrallasi
ultrillasi
ablative
ultraltasi
ultriltasi
allative
ultrallesi
ultrillesi
essive
ultranasi
ultrinasi
translative
ultraksesi
ultriksesi
abessive
ultrattasi
ultrittasi
instructive
comitative
—ultrinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
ultramme
ultramme
accusative
nom.
ultramme
ultramme
gen.
ultramme
genitive
ultramme
ultriemme ultraimme $^{rare}$
partitive
ultraamme
ultriamme
inessive
ultrassamme
ultrissamme
elative
ultrastamme
ultristamme
illative
ultraamme
ultriimme
adessive
ultrallamme
ultrillamme
ablative
ultraltamme
ultriltamme
allative
ultrallemme
ultrillemme
essive
ultranamme
ultrinamme
translative
ultraksemme
ultriksemme
abessive
ultrattamme
ultrittamme
instructive
comitative
—ultrinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
ultranne
ultranne
accusative
nom.
ultranne
ultranne
gen.
ultranne
genitive
ultranne
ultrienne ultrainne $^{rare}$
partitive
ultraanne
ultrianne
inessive
ultrassanne
ultrissanne
elative
ultrastanne
ultristanne
illative
ultraanne
ultriinne
adessive
ultrallanne
ultrillanne
ablative
ultraltanne
ultriltanne
allative
ultrallenne
ultrillenne
essive
ultrananne
ultrinanne
translative
ultraksenne
ultriksenne
abessive
ultrattanne
ultrittanne
instructive
comitative
—ultrinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
ultransa
ultransa
accusative
nom.
ultransa
ultransa
gen.
ultransa
genitive
ultransa
ultriensa ultrainsa $^{rare}$
partitive
ultraansa
ultriaan ultriansa
inessive
ultrassaan ultrassansa
ultrissaan ultrissansa
elative
ultrastaan ultrastansa
ultristaan ultristansa
illative
ultraansa
ultriinsa
adessive
ultrallaan ultrallansa
ultrillaan ultrillansa
ablative
ultraltaan ultraltansa
ultriltaan ultriltansa
allative
ultralleen ultrallensa
ultrilleen ultrillensa
essive
ultranaan ultranansa
ultrinaan ultrinansa
translative
ultrakseen ultraksensa
ultrikseen ultriksensa
abessive
ultrattaan ultrattansa
ultrittaan ultrittansa
instructive
comitative
—ultrineen ultrinensa :

#### Synonyms

* (aircraft): ultrakevyt, ultrakevyt lentokone, UL-kone

### Further reading

* “ultra”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04

## French
### Etymology

From Latin ultrā. Doublet of outre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /yl.tʁa/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

ultra (plural ultras)
* ultra, extreme

### Noun

ultra m or f by sense (plural ultras)
* extremist
* (historical) an ultra-royalist during the Bourbon Restoration period in France

### Further reading

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

## Ido
### Etymology

Borrowed from English ultra, French outre, Italian oltre, Spanish ultra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈultra/

### Adjective

ultra
* ultra: beyond due limit
* further, additional

#### Derived terms

* ultre (“besides, further, moreover, in addition”)
* ultre ke (“besides”)

### References

* Progreso III (in Ido), 1910–1911, page 90
* Progreso V (in Ido), 1912–1913, page 593
* Progreso VII (in Ido), 1914, page 481

## Latin
### Etymology

From ūls +‎ -ter +‎ -ā (adverb ending). See also citrā, intrā, extrā.
The accusative is from the pre-PIE directional.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈul.traː/, [ˈʊɫ̪t̪räː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈul.tra/, [ˈul̪t̪rä]

### Preposition

ultrā (+ accusative)
* beyond

### Adverb

ultrā (not comparable)
* beyond, further
    Synonym: ultrō
    Antonyms: citrā, hinc
* additionally, besides

#### Descendants

* Franco-Provençal: utre
* French: outre
* Friulian: oltri
* Italian: oltre, oltra
* >? Sicilian: urtra
* Occitan: oltra
* From ab + ultra:
** Lombard: autra, aultra, avultra
** Piedmontese: éutra
* Borrowed:
** → English: ultra
** → Portuguese: ultra
** → Spanish: ultra

### References

* “ultra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ultra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* ultra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to pass the limit: ultra modum progredi
* Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “ultra”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German)

### Anagrams

* lutra

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French ultra.

### Adjective

ultra m or f or n (indeclinable)
* ultra, extreme

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈultɾa/ [ˈul̪.t̪ɾa]
* Rhymes: -ultɾa
* Syllabification: ul‧tra

### Adjective

ultra m or f (masculine and feminine plural ultras)
* extreme
* far-right
** 2023 June 20, Eliona Rakipaj, “Una lona de Vox en el centro de Madrid propone tirar a la basura el feminismo, el colectivo LGTBIQ+ y la Agenda 2030”, in El País‎:Finalmente, se termina preguntando si el líder del PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, ha asumido el discurso del partido ultra a raíz de los pactos que se han dado en ayuntamientos y algunas comunidades autónomas.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

### Adverb

ultra
* (obsolete) furthermore, in addition, moreover
    Synonym: además

### Noun

ultra m or f by sense (plural ultras)
* far-right extremist
* hooligan, hardened fan

### Further reading

* “ultra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10