supra

See also: supra-

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin suprā.

Adverb

supra (not comparable)

1. (law) Used to indicate that the current citation is from the same source as the previous one.

   Antonym: infra

2. 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)

1. 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

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Supra (feast)

Wikipedia

From Georgian სუფრა (supra).

Noun

supra (plural supras)

1. 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^[sic] attention.

Anagrams

• praus

Esperanto

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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

1. upper

French

Pronunciation

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Adverb

supra

1. 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

1. 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^(key): /ˈsu.praː/, [ˈs̠ʊpräː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsu.pra/, [ˈsuːprä]

Adverb

suprā (not comparable)

1. (of place) above, on the top, on the upper side
2. (of time) before, previously, formerly

   Quae supra scripta est.

   Which was previously written.

3. (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)

1. (of location) over, above, beyond, on top of, upon

   Supra naturam.

   Above nature.

2. (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)

3. (of number, degree, or quantity) over, above, beyond, more than
4. (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

1. inflection of suprir:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• subra

Etymology

From Latin suprā.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /supra/

Preposition

supra

1. on, on top of, above

   Synonyms: super, supre