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English

Etymology

Abbreviation of extraordinary.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??kst??/
• Hyphenation: ex?tra

Adjective

extra (not comparable)

1. Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; extraneous; additional; supernumerary.

2. (dated) Extraordinarily good; superior.
3. (slang) Over the top; going beyond what is normal or appropriate, often in a dramatic manner.
   • 2017, Yael Livnch, "Whole Foods", in "Get The Inside Soup: Staffers Review Local Soup Stops", 3 February 2017, page 23:

     I highly recommend getting some more bread on the side—they offer small loaves and soup crackers for free, but I'm so extra, I bought my own loaf.

   • 2017, Claire Craig, "#Instabeauty", Northern Woman, November 2017, page 48:

     Shattered glass, pierced, bejewelled, chromed and glittered - nails are going totally extra on Insta at the minute and we approve.

   • 2019, Michelle Spottswood, quoted in Kirby Myers, "Does Christmas in your house start before or after Thanksgiving", Key West Weekly, 21 November 2019, page 7:

     Two months of Christmas trees, Christmas movies and Christmas music brings so much fun to our home, we are so extra with it!

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:extra.

Derived terms

• extraness

Translations

Adverb

extra (not comparable)

1. (informal) To an extraordinary degree.

Translations

Noun

extra (plural extras)

1. Something additional, such as an item above and beyond the ordinary school curriculum, or added to the usual charge on a bill.

   Synonyms: addition, supplement

2. An extra edition of a newspaper, which is printed outside of the normal printing cycle.

3. (cricket) A run scored without the ball having hit the striker's bat - a wide, bye, leg bye or no ball.

   Synonym: sundry

4. (acting) A supernumerary or walk-on in a film or play.
5. Something of an extra quality or grade. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• (something additional): See also Thesaurus:adjunct

Derived terms

• wuxtry

Translations

Derived terms

• extra credit

Anagrams

• Artex, retax, taxer

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

extra (not comparable)

1. extra
2. (Limburg) on purpose

Inflection

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: ekstra

See also

• expres

French

Adjective

extra (plural extras)

1. extra, additional
2. great, super, famous

Noun

extra m or f (plural extras)

1. extra, supplement

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ks.t?a/

Adjective

extra (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) Alternative form of extra- (“extra, special, additional”)

Usage notes

• In formal standard German, extra- is a prefix attached to the following noun. In colloquial German, however, it is often treated like a real adjective. The substantival (or partitive) form used with indefinite pronouns may also take -s: was Extras (“something additional, something on top”).

Adverb

extra

1. specifically (for a given purpose)

   Synonym: eigens

2. (colloquial) on purpose

   Synonyms: absichtlich, mit Absicht

3. (colloquial) aside, apart, separately

   Synonyms: einzeln, getrennt, separat

4. (colloquial) particularly, very

   Synonyms: besonders, sehr

Usage notes

• In the sense of “specifically”, extra has entered the standard language and is now frequently seen in writing. The other senses remain colloquial.

Hungarian

Etymology

From German extra, from Latin extra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??kstr?]
• Hyphenation: ext?ra
• Rhymes: -r?

Adjective

extra (comparative extrább, superlative legextrább)

1. extra (beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; extraneous; additional)

Declension

Noun

extra (plural extrák)

1. luxury features (e.g. in vehicles)

Declension

References

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ekstra/, /e?ztra/

Adjective

extra

1. extra

Italian

Adjective

extra (invariable)

1. extra
2. select (best quality)

Noun

extra m (invariable)

1. extra (something additional)

Latin

Etymology

Adverb contracted from the ablative exter? (parte), of exter.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ek.stra?/, [??ks?(t?)?ä?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ek.stra/, [??kst???]

Preposition

extr? (+ accusative)

1. outside of
2. beyond

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• extra in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• extra in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• extra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• extra in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?es.t??/

Adjective

extra m or f (plural extras, comparable)

1. extra (beyond what is due, usual, expected or necessary)

   Synonym: adicional

Noun

extra m (plural extras)

1. anything that is extra
2. bonus (extra amount of money given as a premium)

   Synonym: bónus

Noun

extra m, f (plural extras)

1. (film) extra; walk-on (actor in a small role with no dialogue)

   Synonym: figurante

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?st?a/, [?e??s.t??a]

Adjective

extra (plural extras)

1. additional, extra
2. superior
3. extraordinary

   Synonym: extraordinario

Derived terms

• horas extras

Swedish

Pronunciation

Adjective

extra

1. extra

Related terms

Adverb

extra

1. extra

English

Etymology

From Middle English augmentation, augmentacion, augmentacioun, from Old French augmentacion, from Latin augment?ti?, verbal noun from augment? (“increase”, verb).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

augmentation (countable and uncountable, plural augmentations)

1. The act or process of augmenting.
2. (heraldry) A particular mark of honour, granted by the sovereign in consideration of some noble action, or by favour; and either quartered with the family arms, or on an escutcheon or canton.
3. (medicine) A surgical procedure to enlarge a body part, as breast augmentation.
4. (medicine) The stage of a disease during which symptoms increase or continue.
5. (music) A compositional technique where the composer lengthens the melody by lengthening its note values.
6. (Scotland, law) An increase of stipend obtained by a parish minister by an action raised in the Court of Teinds against the titular and heritors.

Related terms

• augmentative
• augmented
• auxiliary
• diminution

Translations

References

• The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at [1]

Anagrams

• Mountain Gate

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin augment?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o?.m??.ta.sj??/

Noun

augmentation f (plural augmentations)

1. An increase, a raise

   Synonym: hausse

   Antonyms: diminution, baisse

2. A pay raise

Related terms

• augmenter

Further reading

• “augmentation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).