supra
See also: supra-
English
Adverb
supra (not comparable)
- (law) Used to indicate that the current citation is from the same source as the previous one.
Antonyms
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 and Zaza Shatirishvili, “The Exoticism and Eroticism of the City” in Urban Spaces after Socialism, eds. Tsypylma Darieva et al., 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[sic] attention.
- 2006, Mathijs Pelkmans, Defending the Border, part II, chapter v, 125:
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Guinea-Bissau Creole
Etymology
From Portuguese soprar. Cognates with Kabuverdianu sopra.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsu.praː/, [ˈsʊ.praː]
Adverb
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.
- Quae supra scripta est.
- (of number or measure) more, beyond, over
Usage notes
- When pertaining to time it especially refers to any thing previously said or written.
Antonyms
Derived terms
- supra quam, (rarer) supra quod (above or beyond what, more than)
Related terms
Preposition
suprā (+ accusative)
Antonyms
Derived terms
- suprā caput sum (I am close at hand)
Descendants
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, 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
- as I said above: ut supra (opp. infra) diximus, dictum est
Portuguese
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