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See also: ultra, and ultrà

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    Borrowed from Latin ultrā (beyond).

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    ultra-

    1. Greater than normal quantity or importance, as in ultrasecret.
    2. Beyond, on the far side of, as in ultraviolet.
    3. Beyond, outside of, as in ultrasonic.
    4. Excessively, to an extreme, as in ultramicroscopic, ultra-careful.
      • 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly[1], volume 188, number 23, page 19:
        In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […]  The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
    5. (augmentative) intensely, extremely, or exceptional

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    Czech

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    ultra-

    1. ultra-
      ultra- + ‎fialový → ‎ultrafialový

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    • ultra-”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
    • ultra-”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
    • ultra- in Slovník afixů užívaných v češtině, 2017

    Danish

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    Borrowed from Latin ultrā (beyond).

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    • IPA(key): /ultra-/, [ˈultˢʁ̥ɑˈ-], [ˈultˢʁ̥ɑˌ-]

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    ultra-

    1. ultra- (beyond, on the far side of; beyond, outside of)
    2. (informal) ultra- (greater than normal quantity or importance, excessively, to an extreme)

    Dutch

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    Borrowed from Latin ultrā (beyond).

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    • IPA(key): /ˈʏl.traː/
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    ultra-

    1. ultra- (beyond, on the far side of; beyond, outside of)

    Finnish

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    Internationalism (see English ultra-), ultimately from Latin ultrā.

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    • IPA(key): /ˈultrɑ-/, [ˈul̪.t̪rɑ̝-]

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    ultra-

    1. ultra-

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    French

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    ultra-

    1. ultra-

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    German

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    From Latin ultrā.

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    ultra-

    1. ultra-

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    Hungarian

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    Borrowed from Latin ultrā (beyond).[1]

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    • IPA(key): [ˈultrɒ]
    • Hyphenation: ult‧ra

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    ultra-

    1. ultra-

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    1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

    Irish

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    Borrowed from Latin ultrā (beyond).

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    ultra-

    1. ultra-

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    Italian

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    From Latin ultrā (beyond).

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    ultra-

    1. ultra-

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    Norwegian Bokmål

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    ultra-

    1. ultra- (as for English)

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    Norwegian Nynorsk

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    ultra-

    1. ultra- (as for English)

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    Portuguese

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    From Latin ultrā.

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    ultra-

    1. ultra-

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    Spanish

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    From Latin ultrā.

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    • IPA(key): /ultɾa/ [ul̪.t̪ɾa]
    • Syllabification: ul‧tra-

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    ultra-

    1. ultra-

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