Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The last syllable of a word.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Most remote; furthest; final; last.
  • noun In grammar, the last syllable of a word.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Most remote; furthest; final; last.
  • adjective the last reason or argument; the last resort.
  • adjective See Thule.
  • noun (Gram. & Pros.) The last syllable of a word.

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  • noun grammar, prosody The final syllable of a word.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the last syllable in a word

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin, feminine of ultimus, last; see ultimate.]

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Latin feminine of ultimus ("last").

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Examples

  • Medieval maps used to use the phrase ultima Thule to denote anywhere far enough to lie beyond the "borders of the known world".

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Medieval maps used to use the phrase ultima Thule to denote anywhere far enough to lie beyond the "borders of the known world".

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • (by nature or position), and on either the penult or the antepenult, the circumflex is found only on long vowels, and (in words of more than one syllable) only on the penult, and then only in case the ultima is short.

    The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it Frances Ellen Lord

  • The EU leaders agreed that any aid to Greece must be an "ultima ratio," or last resort, if it becomes clear Greece can't raise enough funds from the market and that loans wouldn't include any element of subsidy and would thus be in line with existing EU laws.

    Euro-Zone Ministers to Discuss Greece Bailout Andrea Thomas 2010

  • The EU leaders agreed that any aid to Greece must be an "ultima ratio," or last resort, if it becomes clear Greece can't raise enough funds from the market and that loans wouldn't include any element of subsidy and would thus be in line with existing EU laws.

    Euro-Zone Ministers To Discuss Greece Bailout Sunday Andrea Thomas 2010

  • The deal European leaders worked out late Thursday holds out the possibility of bilateral loans (and IMF aid) to any troubled euro-zone country but only as an "ultima ratio" and "if market financing is insufficient."

    Who Will Rescue Greece's Rescuers? 2010

  • The EU leaders agreed that any aid to Greece must be an "ultima ratio," or last resort, if it becomes clear Greece can't raise enough funds from the market and that loans wouldn't include any element of subsidy and would thus be in line with existing EU laws.

    Euro-Zone Ministers To Discuss Greece Bailout Sunday Andrea Thomas 2010

  • "We need an agreement that as an ultima ratio it's possible to exclude a country from the euro zone if again and again it doesn't fulfill the requirements," Ms. Merkel said in an address to Germany's lower house of parliament.

    Merkel Says Euro-Zone Expulsion Should Be an Option Patrick McGroarty 2010

  • The EU leaders agreed that any aid to Greece must be an "ultima ratio," or last resort, if it becomes clear Greece can't raise enough funds from the market and that loans wouldn't include any element of subsidy and would thus be in line with existing EU laws.

    Euro-Zone Ministers to Discuss Greece Bailout Andrea Thomas 2010

  • The EU leaders agreed that any aid to Greece must be an "ultima ratio," or last resort, if it becomes clear Greece can't raise enough funds from the market and that loans wouldn't include any element of subsidy and would thus be in line with existing EU laws.

    Euro-Zone Ministers to Discuss Greece Bailout Andrea Thomas 2010

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