different between extra vs other

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?th??r
• (UK)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??ð?(?)/, [??ð?(?)]
  • (Northern England) IPA^(key): /?ð?/
• (US)
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /??ð?/
• (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /??ð?/, [?äð?]
• Hyphenation: oth?er
• Rhymes: -?ð?(r)

Etymology

From Middle English other, from Old English ?þer (“other, second”), from Proto-Germanic *anþeraz (“other, second”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?énteros (“other”). Cognate with Scots uther, ither (“other”), Old Frisian ?ther, ("other"; > North Frisian ü?er, ööder, ouder), Old Saxon ?thar (“other”), Old High German ander (“other”), Old Norse annarr, øðr-, aðr- (“other, second”), Gothic ???????????????????? (anþar, “other”), Old Prussian anters, antars (“other, second”), Lithuanian antroks (“other”, pronoun), Latvian otrs, otrais (“second”), Albanian ndërroj (“to change, switch, alternate”), Sanskrit ????? (ántara, “different”), Sanskrit ???? (anyá, “other, different”).

Adjective

other (not comparable)

1. See other (determiner) below.

   Synonyms: additional, another

2. Second.

   Synonym: alternate

3. Alien.

   Synonym: foreign
4. Different.

   Synonyms: disparate, dissimilar, distinctive, distinguishable, diverse; see also Thesaurus:different

   Antonym: same
5. (obsolete) Left, as opposed to right.

Derived terms

• otherdom
• otherhood
• otherish
• otherling
• otherly
• otherness
• other rank
• other side

Translations

Noun

other (plural others)

1. An other, another (person, etc), more often rendered as another.

2. The other one; the second of two.
   • 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations

     Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.

Derived terms

• others

Translations

Determiner

other

1. Not the one or ones previously referred to.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:other.

Antonyms

• same

Derived terms

• this, that, and the other

Translations

Adverb

other (not comparable)

1. Apart from; in the phrase "other than".

2. (obsolete) Otherwise.

Related terms

• another
• otherwise

Translations

Verb

other (third-person singular simple present others, present participle othering, simple past and past participle othered)

1. (transitive) To regard, label, or treat as an "other", as not part of the same group; to view as different and alien.
2. (transitive) To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise.
   • 2007, Christopher Emdin, City University of New York. Urban Education, Exploring the contexts of urban science classrooms:

     In this scenario, the young lady who had spoken had been othered by her peers and her response to my question had been dismissed as invalid despite the fact that she was alright.

Derived terms

• otherer
• othering
• otherize
• otherization

Anagrams

• Rothe, heort-, hetro, rothe, thero-, threo-, throe

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English ?þer. Compare German oder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?oð?r/, /?o?ð?r/

Conjunction

other

1. or; synonym of or

Determiner

other

1. other

Descendants

• English: other
• Yola: ooree, oree

References

• “???ther, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• ?r (Old West Frisian)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *anþar, from Proto-Germanic *anþeraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?énteros. Cognates include Old English ?þer, Old Saxon ?thar and Old Dutch andar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?ðer/

Adjective

?ther

1. other
2. second

Descendants

• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: öler

  Hallig: öör

  Helgoland: uur

  Mooring: ouder

  Sylt: ü?er

• Saterland Frisian: uur, our
• West Frisian: oar

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN